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Tag Archives: stop motion
Making a Rock to Roll.
Recently I looked through the notes from our two test screening feedback sessions and one note struck me as immensely important: 2 audience members didn’t feel connected to the main character right off the bat, so when she launches on … Continue reading
Posted in The Work in Progress, Uncategorized, Videos
Tagged animation, feedback sessions, stop motion
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Kill Your Darlings.
There are series of writers and filmmakers from Plato to Woody Allen who give an advise: – Kill your darlings. It doesn’t quite make sense (why should I edit out the stuff I really like?) till comes a moment in … Continue reading
Posted in The Work in Progress
Tagged animation, art, arts, depression, entertainment, film, stop motion
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Animated Film Production: Shadowing and Color.
Quite often an audience member asks me: – What software animates for you? To which I respond by raising my both hands and pushing them into the person’s face. – You don’t mean you animate by hand? – they keep … Continue reading
Posted in The Work in Progress
Tagged animation, art, arts, cellulite skin, character dance, depression, entertainment, film, rocks in my pockets, stop motion
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Animated Film Production: Animation.
There are so many different steps in making “Rocks In My Pockets”, that even if you skip some of them (storyboards, character design, layouts) there is plenty left. What happens after we shoot stop motion footage -the rotating hat, the … Continue reading
Animated Film Production: Stop Motion.
After dodging the necessity of storyboards, and making elaborate but cheap sets, it is time to get things moving. Stop motion is a perfect way to get things moving. The problem with stop motion for me is that I don’t … Continue reading
Posted in The Work in Progress
Tagged animation, animation technique, art, arts, film, illustration, movies, nikon d80, stop motion, stop motion animation, video
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Animated Film Production: Sets.
You could call “Rocks In My Pockets” a mixed media project, since it mixes drawn animation and stop motion like in a Screwdriver (we could argue which media serves as vodka and which as orange juice, but the effect is … Continue reading
Posted in The Work in Progress
Tagged animation, arts, entertainment, film, illustration, making sets, oscars, pixilation, screwdriver, sets, stop motion, stop motion animation, story
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Animated Film Production: Storyboards.
Storyboards are an essential part of animated filmmaking process. Everybody wants to know how you storyboard. We decided to decipher some of “Rocks In My Pockets” animation production process into a comprehensive, easy to access form, starting with storyboards. Everything … Continue reading
Posted in The Work in Progress, Uncategorized
Tagged animation, arts, Bill Plympton, bill plymton, film, rocks in my pockets, stop motion, storyboards, video
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Stonehenge Brooklyn.
They say Manhattan is the Stonehenge of the New Age. Manhattanhenge, they call it. Manhattan, of course, is a popular place, but to my opinion, it’s relationship with the Sun is a little bit strained. Who has seen a beam of … Continue reading
Stop in Motion.
Most of my weekends recently are spent on stop motion. The Memorial Day weekend was no exception. My buddies (including never resting, exceptionally prolific Bill Plympton) went to beach to catch some sun and wind but I went to work. … Continue reading
Posted in The Work in Progress
Tagged animation, arts, Bill Plympton, stop motion, stop motion animation, videos
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How Stop Motion Spins it’s Wheels.
Stop motion spins it’s wheels. If it doesn’t spin it’s own wheels, it spins yours. There is a scene in “Rocks In My Pockets” where one of the characters, a smart young lady, has to decide where to submit her … Continue reading
