Stop-Motion

[David Bogie]

One of the things that give traditional stop motion work its personality and style is randomness. If you have shot live video and simply time remap it, it might be predictable to the point of being sterile.
Eschew mediocrity in the pursuit of style: Introduce a few frames that are out of sequence, double-shot or misaligned.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Kevin Camp]

true…

you could modify dan’s expression for a random value:

n = random(2,5);
n * time

i’m not sure if it needs to be a whole number. if it does:

n = Math.round(random(2,5));
n * time

the numbers 2 and 5 are arbitrary… its just saying pick a number between 2 and 5, so set accordingly.

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Daniel Elder]

That’s a great way to randomized this effect, cool I’m excited to give this a try.

Daniel Elder
Associate Producer
http://www.luminair.com

[Johan Edstrom]

If you want it to look like stop-motion (like in the clip you refer to) you should shoot it as stop motion. That’s the whole point. Of course you could time remap and wiggle your footage in an endless amount of ways but it’s never going to look arty and cool like real stop-motion.

[Daniel Elder]

I understand that, but sometimes you don’t have that luxury, or at least I don’t in this case, so I have to make do with real footage and make it as close and artsy as I possibly can. I think the advice given here is great advice for those who need to fake it like I’m doing

Daniel Elder
Associate Producer
http://www.luminair.com

[David Del]

I have tried the expression :
n = 3;
n*time

It just seems to speed up the clip…