Just a small suggestion, when you're animating tests almost every day of the week, wait for the end of the week to upload your tests. Compile them into one big test montage, so that way we have more to look at. If it's long enough, even add music (non copy-righted i'd say) that way the music would entertain us and have us stay to watch the entire video.

With compiling your tests into one video, you'd be posting less in the wips- and tests (or you could make one post with all your tests in that thread.) Because if you keep making let's say.. 15 seconds tests, and make a new thread for each test, people will start to ignore those threads.

Make your threads and tests compacted with quality.
An example of a good test montage is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xRkiDkQrq0
There's titles, and the camera is in focus.

Last edited by Mason (September 22, 2011 (05:23pm))

What kind of camera are you currently using?

I used to use a Sony DSC-W5.

It took great pictures, but with stop motion, it was horrible. You couldn't disable autofocus, so whenever I'd be animating, it would randomly blur. In the editing stage, I'd remove some of the blurred frames, but some still remained.

I now use a Canon Powershot sx130IS. What a difference between Manual and Autofocus. The pictures this camera takes are excellent and when I throw it all together, it looks really good.