Pritchard Studios wrote:Very well done!
The set is nothing....Literally, but my only other gripe is this:
Why is the Lego minifigure's torso on backwards?
You did a great job, but it's really not much more than a glorified test.
Great animation is nice to have, and the integration between the two formats is done very well,
but remember, it's the story that truly carries movies.
Oh yeah, I completely forgot to mention this was my very first animation at 24fps. Woohoo! As for the sets, I traditionally spend a huge amount of production time in creating sets, but I'm currently at university and as such the entirety of my lego collection is a small plastic bag of figures and this grey baseplate. I figure it's the best opportunity to explore the realm of extra editing and special effects since I have nothing else to work with.
The backwards minifigure: From "Design Flaw", my previous big animation, I had characters with only solid color torsos, but I didn't have any all-grey ones so I would animate by switching the orientation of the torso to keep the "front" always unseen; I forgot about this after halfway through animating it, and since I have other projects I want to get on with, I just decided to accept it.
Problems with the rotoscoping were that: the exposure and color change between live action and stopmotion, even though everything was manual and the color balance was the same value; and that I forgot to do one of the hand movement recording before taking the camera off the tripod, so I had to deal with misaligned footage
GoldenAnimations wrote:what kind of camera do you use?
I used a Canon 60D, and the camera used as a prop.. no idea, I borrowed it from a friend I used Canon's remote capture software (and frame-by-frame to periodically check the animation timing), which works brilliantly: I can control almsot everything on the camera from my comput without issue, I even somehow get live preview over the USB cable.
If you really want, I can upload a video that shows the screens of each after effects layer – I'll post the link later
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