One person who saw this contraption asked me if I was growing something in there. Probably not what they were talking about, but my reply was, “Yes. Concepts and ideas!”
This is the photography/scene capture section of Really Big Shoe Productions, Animation Station. Since I am learning on the fly, I build /redesign a lot of this as I go. I recently built a 2’x4’x6’ version of this table. It didn’t work out. So far, I’ve been able to do everything I need on this 2’x2’x4.5’enclosure which holds my camera and lighting.
I set up the workstation so I can see what the camera sees on my computer screen. The photo was taken by Kari when she caught me working on a mountain background scene for my video “Bring the Rain.”
I had taped four blue pages together, then cut and tore four black pages, taped them together and tacked that layer on top of the blue pages. I had rubbed chalk all over the black pages to create the look of mountains.
To get a 35-second stop-motion scene, I took 520 photographs, moving the 34-inch combined strip in 2mm increments for every shot. I shot it out of focus because it will be backgroud in my next video,
Agitation reigns,
But there’s calm in the corner.
That is where I’ll be.
Peace Y’all!
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