Stop Motion

Mother told me to try something different.

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I made a stop-motion video (mostly to see if I could) with bits I had lying around or withing a 5 minute walk. … also, I wanted to see if I could record “blocked out” storyboards since I’m a crap pose drawing person.

I spent £2 on some pipe cleaners and a dopey phone stand. I took the pictures on my phone. I used some bluetack to help posing, pyOpenCV3 to encode the jpegs at 3 FPS, and ffmpeg to reduce the file size so that I could upload it in < 40 minutes. > The writeup took about 40 minutes … so maybe I didn’t save much time

I think the fella could use some firmer limbs - (maybe pasta tubes?) to make animation easier. I went looking for used-GI-Joe toys to produce storyboards from. I wanted the articulated hips and joints to show things like dudes slouching. With firmer limbs - I’d probably get smoother results … maybe …

It also might be good to have a steadier hand when taking the pictures.