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Bricks in Motion
We are a friendly filmmaking community devoted to the art of stop-motion animation using LEGO® and similar construction toys. Here, you can share your work, join our community of other brickfilmers, and participate in periodic animation contests!
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still use lamps, mess around with exposure and gain or just make it black and white in your editing program.
I learned this from the old Si665 who is never here anymore. The lighting being bright will give you better quality. Mess around with the settings for darkness.
a) You can see your set better
b) Your focus quality is still great
I thought a low-wattage bulb would do the job well.
I would personally do it in post production. I would mess around with the darkness, saturation, colours and stuff like that in an editing programme.
@Chuppa making it black and white wouldn't really be the best idea. But I suppose messing around with camera settings would work.
@Aquamorph the best advice I can give you is to try everything until you get what your looking for.
Yeah, I agree, set your lighting up as usual, then change the camera settings.
I would personally do it in post production. I would mess around with the darkness, saturation, colours and stuff like that in an editing programme.
@Chuppa making it black and white wouldn't really be the best idea. But I suppose messing around with camera settings would work.
@Aquamorph the best advice I can give you is to try everything until you get what your looking for.
I swear ThatBobaFettGuy edited after
use a blue florescent light and point your lamps upward so the light bounces off the ceiling.
I just tried to edit a bit of previous footage in cyberlink power director 8. All I did was lower the brightness, increase the back lighting and make the colour temperature cooler. And it worked a treat. I assume you can do the same thing with any good video editing software.
I just tried to edit a bit of previous footage in cyberlink power director 8. All I did was lower the brightness, increase the back lighting and make the colour temperature cooler. And it worked a treat. I assume you can do the same thing with any good video editing software.
Yes I have Sony Vegas Pro thanks for the help.
Black and White could help build suspense if that is your goal for the dark scene.
These few shots are from the unreleased version of Not Forgotten and were set at a night scene, and I think they turned out pretty nice:
I more or less just got enough lighting to illuminate the character and had the background as dark as possible. btw sorry about the size, and yes it was shot with a qcp 9k
If my film is set outside at night, I change the grade it in EffectsLab.
the trick to night time - even though it's "dark" you still need a lot of light to get a rich healthy picture.
try taking your brightest light and backlighting your minifigs. little blue gel, instant night!
still use lamps, mess around with exposure and gain or just make it black and white in your editing program.
Black and White could help build suspense if that is your goal for the dark scene.
B&W does not = night time.
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