Monday 17 November 2008

How I made a stop-motion animation video for a song about the Wizard of Oz


Well it's finally done!
In total it's taken us almost 2 months to finish this video. That's about 4 weeks of me actually finding the time to plan the story and make and paint all the sets and wire-frame figures, then a few days of intense stop-frame animation followed by an interesting evening spent in Paul and Sean's kitchen with a camcorder, a desk light, a torch and a strobe light.

Editing it though caused so many problems, not least the tedious amount of time it took to sync everything up with the music. The main problem I had was my crappy version of Premier kept skipping out the light frames in the strobe sections everytime I tried to export them leaving big black sections. After trying it everyway I possibly could I was reduced to using 'print screen' and cropping each individual light frame in photoshop before importing them back into the project.

I had to do this over 400 times...

So considering how this was made once again I couldn't be happier with how 'professional' the final product looks!

PLEASE LEAVE US A COMMENT AND LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!

- Andy xo


THANKS THANKS THANKS TO THE TWO JOHNNYS!

Jon James for helping with all the animation and
Jonny Jones for filming the strobe segments

Watch the high quality flash version here http://www.outfromanimals.com

You can watch it on youtube here : http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TxWmEL3HwDU&fmt=6

Or for possibly better quality (both are pretty compressed unfortunately) on facebook here : http://www.facebook.com/video/?id=6088068683