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how to you make lego's go in slow motion without effects
what i mean by without effects is that you just don't do regular animation the slow it down with an effect.
Do you just make smaller adjustments in the frames?
Yeah, just move them less inbetween each frame. There really isn't an easy way around slow motion that I know of.
What he means is if you are shooting at say 15 fps, and wanted to slow down a minifig walking, you'd take maybe 4 or 5 pictures of your minifigure standing there, then you'd take 4 or 5 pics of your minifigure with his leg raised. Repeat this for the entire walk cicle and you have slow-mo animation! 
Uh...no, MadLibs. That's too many frames. It would not be slow motion, it would be choppy animation.
Anyway, from my experiments with slow-motion I've found that taking two pics for every movement instead of one achieves a decent slo-mo effect. Of course, making the minifigs movements much, much smaller to achieve slow-motion looks better, but it takes a buttload more time and patience.
Last edited by Bricklord (August 27, 2010 (09:24am))
What he means is if you are shooting at say 15 fps, and wanted to slow down a minifig walking, you'd take maybe 4 or 5 pictures of your minifigure standing there, then you'd take 4 or 5 pics of your minifigure with his leg raised. Repeat this for the entire walk cicle and you have slow-mo animation!
Doing it that way actually doesn't turn out that great at all. Basically what you're doing is slowing down the framerate to about 2 or 3 pictures a second. It doesn't give the illusion of slow motion, it only makes it look like you're playing a slideshow. I would suggest Homerball's method, or if you have After Effects, you can use Pixel Motion.
i dont have after effects... too expensive. what is homerball's method? 
i dont have after effects... too expensive. what is homerball's method?
Homerball,s method is just moving the minifig way less each movement, which takes a while, but is worth it.
two pics for everyone normal movement, then fade each picture together. That's what I would do, but seeing as I've never done it before, don't trust my opinion.
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