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How would I achieve a slow-motion effect? Would I shoot on doubles and still use 15 FPS? OR would I take more pictures and than edit them at 15 FPS? Help would be appreciated!
Shooting on doubles would just make it look like bad animation. You need to make more pictures to make the animation slower.
to get a decent slow motion effect with lego - I'd do it in post production (CGI wise). but only if its supposed to be really slow.
Thanks for the help. And Ratboy, how would you do it in CGI? I'd like to know to, because I'm not too good with CGI, but I'd rather have someone with experience do it. Hazzat's idea does seem pretty good tho.
Thanks for the help. And Ratboy, how would you do it in CGI? I'd like to know to, because I'm not too good with CGI, but I'd rather have someone with experience do it. Hazzat's idea does seem pretty good tho.
I don't know really - i'd cross that bridge when I come to it. perhaps I'll try it one day
Fantastic advice there, ratboy.
The way slow motion works in real life is that the camera is cranked to record at a higher frame rate than the footage will play back at. So if you're normally recording NTSC at 30 fps, you might record your footage at 60 fps instead, and play it back at 30 fps for half speed. So like BertL and Hazzat say, more frames at smaller increments is the way to do it. Walking/running in slow motion would be incredibly hard to do with lego.
to get a decent slow motion effect with lego - I'd do it in post production (CGI wise). but only if its supposed to be really slow.
I wouldn't unless I am able to integrate the CGI into the stop-motion seamlessly. We artists, after all, can spot such integration easily if it's poorly done.
Yeah, the smaller increments sounds easiest.... and less painful... OldScratch, I know running or walking would be quite hard. I was planning on doing slow-motion where (I know 300 does it, but I've only seen Legend of the Seeker) it goes at normal speed, than slows down, than gets back up. I would only do it when there's a sword swing or people flying backwards.
And Lechnology, you still confuse me with all your CGI stuff. I've tried Blender, and man is it confusing!!
I've tried Blender, and man is it confusing!!
It is indeed. Give it time, you'll get at least the basics.
reeldp wrote:I've tried Blender, and man is it confusing!!
It is indeed. Give it time, you'll get at least the basics.
I learnt how to use blender once, I got pretty good at it (i think) but now I use another piece of software, and I can't imagine how difficult blender would be for me if I went back to it. Still...its an incredible piece of software for a freebie
Thanks for all the help, guys. I'm now starting to plan some ideas.
How would it look to take normally filmed footage (15fps) and then play it back at 7fps while applying a motion blur? That's a "poor man's" slo-mo, and might look okay enough for simple, quick projects that don't need to be professional quality. Animating at 15fps is challenging enough. Trying to animate minifigs at 30fps (even smaller movement increments) would probably make me scream.
i would normally apply a fading effect between the images, this can imitate slow motion, however if you dont want the fading way, you would have to take a lot of frames in between images. This would be increasingly hard though.
Hope I helped 
7.5fps slowmotion can look more cheesy, as demonstrated at 1:17 in this video.
I'll probably go for smaller increments.... and I'll be screaming. Maybe I'll take a before pic of me and then an after.... I'll have no hair in the after because I'll have ripped it out...:o
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