Plan- I want to have something goofy. A little fight scene between two lego characters. I'll create a little landscape for them but nothing that'd distract from the characters.
"Her morning Elegance"- What's there to critique here? The artist has a creative use of household items, socks, pillows, and is able to use them for multiple subjects. The video has a good pacing and does what it wants to well.
"Stop motion whiteboard video"- Good use of a whiteboard, doesn't waste paper to create images. The artist has a nice look to the flow of their subjects, one looking very liquid in how it drags. They create a good false sense of perspective with it.
"Super Lego Mario"- A good use of legos, making a goomba (the little mushroom creature) out of pieces. The flag pole being something Mario's hand could latch onto and slide down was also nifty. having the fireworks at the end booming off the wall was a great ides, and executed well.
"Warhammer 40k Stop motion"- The artist drew over their frames to make it look as though there is bulletfire and flames, though it isn't realistic I think it's a nice effect. The animation is choppy and inconsistent in some places, but that could be them trying to have a 'freeze frame'.
"Lego Millenium Falcon stop motion"- They have a stop motion of them building up the lego, it's been done before however instead of just placing one block per frame like some do, they have everything flow together in a nice way. They have different blocks float over built to look like tiny space ships, that break apart and mold to the whole, which I think is creative. My favorite bit was when they had the snake crawl over and become the wrapping to the walls of the ship.
Review-
My Stop motion didn't have any theme other than goofy action, it was mostly a practice of using the characters and having them in motion. The stop motion took about 46 frames. The total video was a whopping 8 seconds long. I didn't have a good stand for the camera, using a tape measure as a weight keeping it up. If I had easy access to my legos, (which are in my basement, (I have to crawl through a small space to get to them) I would have made a stand using some bricks and maybe a kneed eraser to fill the space in. I used the app "lapse it" which was funky in that you had to pause and unpause at the right times to get the frames correct. If there was an onion-skin feature that would have been helpful with making the frames consistent. I want to do this again, make something a little more fluid. Knowing the pacing of movement for frames is something to find out before hand. I would make a better stand for my phone, as well I would have something a little more dynamic in terms of what happens in the video. I enjoyed making it and I'd like to give it another go.
