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I'm going to need to animate water for a beach scene in a lego film I'm making but don't know what to use for the water. I thought about using lego for it but it probably wouldn't look that good. I have heard about sqirlz but that only works for the bottom of an image not the top like a beach would be. Any ideas.
Clay. Rememeber, keep the clay smooth. If it's not smooth, it won't look like water.
You should probably do some practice animating the clay to get the look and movement of water right before you do the scene in your film.
Cling film can look a lot like water if you scrumple it a bit, then lay it on top of something blue and animate it properly. It's a bit tricky to get right though.
Clay. Rememeber, keep the clay smooth. If it's not smooth, it won't look like water.
You should probably do some practice animating the clay to get the look and movement of water right before you do the scene in your film.
Isn't clay bad to use with stop motion it kinda stick to every thing and leaves an oily residue.
minifig051 wrote:Clay. Rememeber, keep the clay smooth. If it's not smooth, it won't look like water.
You should probably do some practice animating the clay to get the look and movement of water right before you do the scene in your film.
Isn't clay bad to use with stop motion it kinda stick to every thing and leaves an oily residue.
No. People animate with clay all the time. Sure, it's sticky, but all you need to do to get it off is take a bigger blob of clay and press it in to the clay you want to remove and there, it's off. This works because it sticks to eachother better than it sticks to other things. If you're worried about residue, you can just rinse it off.
Oh, and be sure to use the non-hardening plasticine-like clay.
I've seen water animated well with bricks, you just have to have the right blue pieces. CrazyEd has done it well, I suggest checking out his beach video.
In my opinion, Sqirlz is by far the best way to animate water, rain, etc. its easy to use, its free, and you don't have to buy all that extra stuff.
Also, here is a good tutorial on how to use it.
Hmm, you can use some cotton or blue lego bricks. It's just great to make your own visual effects no some editing program thing. Keep it going, you'll find a way soon. I'm pretty sure. But I recommend some natural and real, no some effect from program... 
But if you want to make some realistic very realistic water. Use Sqirlz! It's pretty nice. 
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