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!
A place to discuss, share, and create stop motion films.
Ad
You are not logged in. Please login or register.
Ok, here's my thing.
would a fog machine help with atmosphere? I just want your thoughts on using fog in stopmotion.....
I honestly wouldn't recommend it bud. Just for the fact, it's constantly moving and varying especially if your doing stop motion. It just would look very distorted and out of place. Your also taking frames not live shooting so the fog would never be in the same place from the last frame, remember fog is constantly moving they are the shadows of solid objects.
So no, unless you're planning on doing live filming I don't believe it'll work at all for stop motion. For fog why don't you just do it Post production? You seem really great with post work judging by your past work.
Sincerely,
Divine.
Like Divine said, the fog keeps moving, and probably wouldn't be consistent. Plus, with the time it takes to make a brickfilm, using a fog machine would fill your entire house with fog and you'd suffocate before you finished filming a second of animation. There is probably a more practical way to make fog, though. Squid waved a tissue around on a long exposure shot to create mist, although it was not consistent, so it probably wouldn't make a good animation. ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/66562408@N03/13467634635/ ).
For one still image, sure go for it. For an animation, no. The fog would move and it would making it look very ugly. I would recommend doing it in post.
Hazzat used a fog machine in this video and it creates the desired effect. Sure, it looks a bit choppy, but this is stop-motion; I think it would be more jarring if it was super smooth post production effects. I guess it comes down to what your personal preference would be.
Keep in mind that when you move the characters for their motions, your hands will stir up the fog, and cause there to be very large changes in the fog (causing choppy animation, like everyone said). Something you could use if for would be to make your own stock footage, with a black backdrop and the fog moving in front, and the composite the video footage over the animation in post-production.
If you're curious as to what tissue/long exposure fog looks like, I did a 9 frame test that looks terrible. Squid was right. It isn't consistent.
I just want it to sorta fill the area, to make the light flare's more natural and that....
Posts [ 9 ]
