That was so awesome, Toddinator (messing around with names today )! That was better than the crap I made with my parent's old VHS camera. Here's an example of the weird stuff I made, trying to emulate the "perfect" animation that Aardman does:



BTW, Todd, has you ever heard of Wallace and Gromit? You haven't seen stop-motion animation until you see this british guy and his dog!
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TODD! Stop being so awesomely good at stuff! That animation is really cool, and kinda spooky!

Gah - I'd make an animation for this thread if my damn camera was working! Well, the camera itself works fine, but the FireWire port which I use to transfer video with is busted (the camera fell off my computer desk with the lead in, and the lead bent inside the port).

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YEAH! That rocked! The added sound effects and simulated camera zooms really added a lot to the video. Without them, it's definitely not as interesting or creepy.

I hope you resurrect more of your unfinished projects like this.

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Mr. Sinistar Wrote:That was so awesome, Toddinator (messing around with names today )! That was better than the crap I made with my parent's old VHS camera. Here's an example of the weird stuff I made, trying to emulate the "perfect" animation that Aardman does: ... BTW, Todd, has you ever heard of Wallace and Gromit? You haven't seen stop-motion animation until you see this british guy and his dog!

Thanks, Mr. Sinistar!

You did a great job on the characters in your animation - they look very close to the characters by the stop motion master Aardman. I love his animations and yes, they are pretty much as close to perfect stop motion as I've ever seen anyone get.

It looks like you were limited by the functionality of the VHS camcorder. I tried animating with a VHS camcorder before too. It really sucks because each "frame" ends up being 1 whole second. So it looks more like a slide show than an animation when done. But I tried several times back in the early 90's. I had to wait for technology to become more affordable before I could do anything that really looked like animation (as opposed to a slide show).

You've got better tools now, right? Let's see some more stop motion... that is if you're not too busy with the open source TRON project. Mighty cool that thing is looking!

Traahn Wrote:Hey, wow! That's pretty cool, TheReelTodd! I was pleasantly surprised by that piece. Quite a different spin on the term, "bed bugs," eh? Creativity abounds in your brain, dude. I like the version with sounds better than the one without. Gives it more "life" than the one without.

Thanks, Traahn! Yeah - I like the updated version better too. I originally just intended to publish it as is without movement or sounds, but couldn't help playing with it some first. Actually, in 1998, the original version was the best I could pull off because I didn't have any digital editing tools - just a freeware program that allowed me to take frames and compile them in to an animation (without audio).

NoExcuses Wrote:TODD! Stop being so awesomely good at stuff! That animation is really cool, and kinda spooky! Gah - I'd make an animation for this thread if my damn camera was working! Well, the camera itself works fine, but the FireWire port which I use to transfer video with is busted (the camera fell off my computer desk with the lead in, and the lead bent inside the port). Cool site revamp, too!

Thank you, NoExcuses! Glad you enjoyed my old animation updated and the site revamp. The site is still far from complete - it's a work in progress as I figure out how to use the new site engine (steep learning curve). But I'm working on it as I can make the time and also trying to publish something at least once a week.

Sorry about your camera not working. That really sucks! I thought you had some stop motion animations already though. You had two stop motion light cycles at one point - did you make anything else? If not, why not post your cycles? I thought they were pretty cool.

BEAT that camera in to submission. A media artist without a functional camera is like an egg without salt!

MutoidMan Wrote:A bedbug that makes the bed for you...? Where do I get mine? Nifty stop motion animation, Todd. I like the updated version better. The sound effects almost have a Them quality; which is, of course, very cool. I look forward to seeing the next short you decide to dust off.

Thanks, MutoidMan! I'll take your "Them" comment as a big compliment! You can get your bed making bedbug from a street vendor if you search around, I'm sure. They're great because they work really hard, but they do chew through the occasional sheet and extr

TheReelTodd Wrote:I thought you had some stop motion animations already though. You had two stop motion light cycles at one point - did you make anything else? If not, why not post your cycles? I thought they were pretty cool.

Hmm, come to think of it, I do have one or two things. *Uploads one or two things to Photobucket* And here we go!

The Spectacularly Exciting Adventures of Paper-Man! Episode 1 - Paper-Man goes to the shops. I made this a while ago, when I wanted to try out some Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) style animation.



The Spectacularly Exciting Adventures of Paper-Man! Episode 2 - Paper-Man Vs. Lord Lollingly of Lollington Manor


This next video is pretty much the first Tron-based video I ever made. It's done the same way as Paper-Man, with little bits of paper, but I then inverted the colours and added the glow in a brilliant free-ware video editing program called 'Zweistein'.


This video isn't quite stop-motion, but it's close enough. It's a scene from A Giant Face II (coming soonish, when my camera works!) from which I traced every other frame onto a sheet of paper, to emulate the style of the a-ha video, Take on Me (this video is a pretest of a parody I'm going to make of that video). I'm the guy who walks off-screen at the start of the video, and my friend Tom (Evil_Tom_Gu) is the other guy.


And finally, just 'cos you asked for them, Todd...

TheReelTodd Wrote:BEAT that camera in to submission. A media artist without a functional camera is like an egg without salt!

But I have my eggs without salt... I'm DOOMED never to have a working camera! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

TheReelTodd Wrote:Haaaaaaaa! I dig Paper-Man. I like how he walks about and then kind of swims through the air like that. That cracks me up.

Thanks, Todd!

TheReelTodd Wrote:Your TRON energy-clap video is really cool too. I love to see old school animation techniques blended with techie stuff like the glowing effect. The end result is really cool.

Thanks. The very, very first Tron effect video I did was similar to that (it was animated with paper and I added glowy effects to it afterwards), but it's only 10 frames long and it hardly seemed worth uploading.

TheReelTodd Wrote:I loved your sketch-style animation. It looks pretty dead-on for the Ah-Ha effect, which was cooler than cool back in the day (and still is today). THAT effect alone made that video awesome! I looks pretty labor intensive, especially if you did it on paper. That's devotion to the art! Although it's not stop-motion, it is very cool and I'm glad you posted it here.

Thanks! Labour-intensive doesn't even cut it . Oh, and I still have the paper I used:


PAPER ATTACK!
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TheReelTodd Wrote:I still have the transparency cells stored away in the basement somewhere and even the animation on my Apple //c. Perhaps I'll dig them out and capture them on my current PC. I used the short animation as the intro to my videography work back in the early 90's. It was pretty cool at the time, but even then well behind current technology. I made the best of what I had to work with though.

That would be another great early project to finish and post on your site!

I think I'm going to start this thread back up again. I haven't found any of my other unseen animation demos, but there are a few I plan to dust off and show here.

In the meantime, I thought I'd show a stop motion demo that I turned in to a mini-production. In many ways, it might be considered my very first ever QuickVid as the entire 21 second clip was produced in just a matter of hours one Friday (about 3 or 4 hours total if memory serves).

Some of you have have seen this before. Fun With Stop Motion Animation:



This is exactly how it appeared on Friday, August 17, 2001 - the day I produced it. I shot a stop motion timing demo, watched it, laughed, and decided to throw in some set-up titles/text and add sound effects.

There were not many video sharing websites back then, so I e-mailed this video to a few friends and called it a day. I also posted it on SingleReel.com (the older, original version which is no longer in service) shortly there after.

This particular stop motion animation was a timing test for a much larger production I was planning, based on the race-car bit. I never did produce it, or even the less ambitious version of it. Time and lack of resources contributed to that.

The title this video also implies that there were to be more. I planned on making more short stop motion clips like this - short, quickly made, and silly. As with so many other things, I never got around to it.

This particular type of stop motion animation is also called a pixilation.

Anyone else got any pixilations or want to make one?

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