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  • Joined: August 24, 2010

Topic: Questions and recomendations on new stuff

I'm starting fresh. I am re-starting.  I need new stuff- stuff for animating good. i'm bad at picking stuff out, so this is where you all come in. i need help from you guys: recommendations and answers to my questions. i need to figure out which is best for brickfilming, and which is not.

The Lamps

i hate the lamps i have... mini/sad  they were cheap, and they clamp onto the side of my table- well, they're supposed to clamp. it's horrible! They don't clamp at all. they fall off, they ease down slightly at a time. I need new lamps. LED, florescent, normal? can you post the brand of lamps you have, so i might get an idea of what i should get? do yours get hot, burn, or not hot at all? how many should i get?

The desk:

My desk is too big. so i'm looking for a new one. should it be the same width as my baseplate, or wider? should it have room to fit my laptop, or should i just put that on a separate table so it's 'L' shaped?

The Background:

the thing i use right now is a dark blue piece of poster board as my background- but i'm afraid that this might be one of the causes of my light flicker. so, should the color be light, or dark? how far away should it be from the set? Cloth, or paper?

As you can see, i have many problems which i cannot decide on, so this is why i am asking the community. If you have any answers to my questions, please post them. even recommend the item brand that you have.

Thanks!
-emayesoen

  • Joined: July 15, 2010

Re: Questions and recomendations on new stuff

i use a red lamp that is flexible. I dont know what brand but it is. its sold at lowes, and it has some little cubbies for clay sticky tak, lego ect. but use a different lightbulb. it isnt floerecent.

an L shaped desk should work.

i think you should use a light posterboard. i put it a few inches from my set and tape it to the walls.

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Re: Questions and recomendations on new stuff

I suggest using MonkeyJam as an animation program, and your backdrops should be no less than a foot from your set, depends what you want. If you want a blurred backround like somone on a hill, put it back more. I use two lamps with Florescent lightbulbs (not the best but it works) covered by white blank paper to dim the reflection down, and I have one exposed lamp to get the color, with no paper covering it. If you arent already, try using 16:9 instead of 4:3, it makes it better. To reduce light flicker, turn down your exposure a bit, if possible, on your camera. If you have a white backdrop or white lego set, make a color block, (what I call it), it has all the colors of the colors on the set stacked on each other facing the reflection of the lamp to the set to make more color. Try to get 3tall, by 2 or 4wide stacked to get more color. That's all I have to say. mini/smile Good luck!

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