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MichaelHickox' animations are more fluent than mine, but he also has the perfect equipment for making Stop-Motion Animations (and he has more legosWow! You have really outdone yourself mate! :eek:
I have to say, your work is comparable to that of YouTubers like MichaelHickox, and the story is a purely innocent one whoch I really happen to fancy.
4/4 Stars! ☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆
).Thank you, Gold!Not too shabby, Pixelgamer. Being a retired lego stop-motion animator myself, I've a few tips for ya:
Overall though, bang up job for a good animation. It is comparable to MichaelHickox's works for sure, though in the future I'd recommend looking up some tips from the pros to refine your animation skills more.
- Always keep your lighting source constant, and make sure your stage isn't moving. I noticed a few frames were a little inconsistent with the lighting, and the stage was moving a tad (that our your camera was). I'd recommend pinning the stage down with thumbtacks, and use a lamp for your light source (noticed you didn't use flash on your photos, good job there).
- Restrain from recording FX/music. Generally downloading some sound effects online (or YouTube vids with them, I can help ya download YouTube vids if ya want), will make the quality of the effects/music sound better with the film. If they're your own produced effects though, I have no issue there.
- Keep a constant FPS (frames per second), there were some scenes where the FPS wasn't consistent all the way through, but this always tends to happen to most first-time animators in stop-motions (usually this is less noticeable as you progress in your work). I'd have to say you'd be hitting around 18-20FPS in that film for the more active scenes (still shots are good too, no complaints there).
By the way, if you ever feel like using voices for your characters in animations, I'd be more than happy to offer my voice for it.
Ah, that would explain the shakiness of some scenes, with a crappy tripod. I myself filmed my first stop motion with a crappy short tripod (which was ideally perfect for my films, however eventually one of the legs had a design flaw and I had to trash the whole thing). As for the music bit, I actually downloaded sound effects from sound effect sites, like SoundBible (though for the music I did end up buying a track at one point for the film, however noawadays I just download the YouTube vids and use those instead). I believe my first ever film I actually had 12FPS (just a smidge over your 11 FPSMichaelHickox' animations are more fluent than mine, but he also has the perfect equipment for making Stop-Motion Animations (and he has more legos
Oh and thanks Rude! ^o^
Thank you, Gold!
Thanks for the tips! The screen was wiggling because I used a shabby tripod, which I ordered trough "TV Smiles" (An app where you can collect "Smiles" and redeem them for gift cards or other things), but I can pay more attention, that the stage is fixed to the ground next time.
Before I upgraded to IOS 8 and lost my Jailbreak, I used to have an app, with which I could download music directly to my music gallery. After that I had no clue on how to download music on my iPod and I just used my iPad to play music and my iPod to record it.
Oh and for the FPS-part I have to say that I just used 11FPS for the whole movie. (I heard MichaelHickox uses 15 FPS for his animations)
I always worked without humanic voices before (well, except of the part with the boy, who was raging because he got a sausage instead of a toy locomotive and the drinking-voice), but I would be happy to work with you together sometime!
), which was steady yet shaky (quite similar to yours in fact). I also used a mic to record my character's voices (and some of the sound effects ), though I wouldn't say the mic was exactly the best (was using a headset for it).
Have you uploaded your animations somewhere? I'd really want to see them if that's possible.Ah, that would explain the shakiness of some scenes, with a crappy tripod. I myself filmed my first stop motion with a crappy short tripod (which was ideally perfect for my films, however eventually one of the legs had a design flaw and I had to trash the whole thing). As for the music bit, I actually downloaded sound effects from sound effect sites, like SoundBible (though for the music I did end up buying a track at one point for the film, however noawadays I just download the YouTube vids and use those instead). I believe my first ever film I actually had 12FPS (just a smidge over your 11 FPS
And glad to hear it, if ya think of having voices in your next animation, feel free to message me and I'l see what I can do!
Actually, I have not uploaded my animations whatsoever. Unfortunately, my old laptop's hard drive failed (the one that had my stop motion films on it), so it's almost impossible for me to upload them.Have you uploaded your animations somewhere? I'd really want to see them if that's possible.
Oh, I see. I wish you luck! ;)Actually, I have not uploaded my animations whatsoever. Unfortunately, my old laptop's hard drive failed (the one that had my stop motion films on it), so it's almost impossible for me to upload them.
I did burn one to DVD though (to show at a friend's birthday party), and I have the footage on the desktop downstairs (for one of the films, anyway), so in due time I might decide to hunt for the missing pieces and recreate my films and upload them. Sorry.
Thanks! The presentation will be on Tuesday btw. ^_-
