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This is my first successful stop-motion animation videoblog post. One thing I really wish I’d done with the Dummies book was include more on animated videoblogs, but I guess I can do that with articles or perhaps another book (we had to cut pages from the Dummies book as it is).
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, I tried doing a stop-motion animation vlog with some toy dinosaurs. It was a phenomenal failure– I couldn’t do anything right. Everything was out of focus. I wound up trashing the whole project, but I was glad I had tried. For one thing, it showed me how things aren’t always as easy as I think they will be. For another, it made me go out and learn more about stop-motion animation. I read a website on it, and downloaded a program called Frame Thief that does the single-frame capture necessary to do stop motion animation. After that, I got out a prop (my sunglasses) and some fishing line (to manipulate the prop like a puppet) and set about making my first stop-motion animation video. Added a short audio track of me whistling tunelessly, just to fill the silence.
It’s short and completely unplanned, but I think it came out pretty well, don’t you?
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Cool! Nice job!
Love your book. Wish there was more fore youtube. ( thats my little world). but never-the-less great book.
Thanks, Joe! When I was writing the book, YouTube wasn’t “there” yet, so I had to go by what it was at the time, which is what it mostly still is, a video sharing site, more than a videoblogging site. Which isn’t to say YouTube users aren’t videobloggers, but rather that the major focus of the site is for something other than videoblogging.
However, today LiveJournal announced the new embedded video option for YouTube and Photobucket hosted videos, which is a breakthrough (and of course changes some of what I’ve said in the book about LiveJournal as being a poor choice for videoblogging). So, yeah. I should probably do an update/article on the book’s website.
Just as easy would be to take loads of pictures using a stills camera and making an image sequence in quicktime pro. Then you can always cut and edit in imovie. But great try out never the less.
Ah, Paul– but see, that’s what I tried before and didn’t work. Now, granted, I probably could have made it work, but the frame capture stuff works so well– definitely worth the money to save me a lot of time!