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Title: My Wizard & Jedi Daughters: (Fun with special video effects)
Post by: eskimo2 on April 29, 2007, 02:51:38 PM
I’ve been playing around with stop-action animation always wanted to try adding animation effects frame by frame to live real-time footage.  My Nikon still camera has an “ultra high continuous” mode where it will take up to 100 640x480 jpegs at 30 frames per second.  

I used this mode to shoot my five-year-old daughter, Brigitta, hugging her favorite stuffed animal, extending her arm and dropping it.  I then mass renamed the 3.3 seconds of jpegs in reverse order; so it looks like her bunny flies up into her hand.  The “magic” (she loves magic) is the lightning bolts that were added frame by frame to summon her bunny up to her hand.  I mixed a pretty cool sparky sound to go along with it.  

My seven-year-old daughter, Svea, loves Star Wars.  I took a picture of a weird glowing liquid sphere thing that we have, cut it in half, extended it, changed its color and used it for a light saber.  A wav sound search resulted in some authentic light saber sounds.

Below are single frames from the animations as well as links to the WMV files.  Each file is less than 10 seconds long (with a title) and less than .5 MB in filesize.

(http://hallbuzz.com/images/2007/apr/brigitta_summons_bunny_640.JPG)
http://hallbuzz.com/movies/2007/brigitta_summons_bunny.wmv

(http://hallbuzz.com/images/2007/apr/sveas_light_saber_640x480.JPG)
http://hallbuzz.com/movies/2007/sveas_light_saber.wmv
Title: My Wizard & Jedi Daughters: (Fun with special video effects)
Post by: Bodhi on April 29, 2007, 03:46:13 PM
pretty awesome Eskimo
Title: My Wizard & Jedi Daughters: (Fun with special video effects)
Post by: Sparks on April 29, 2007, 04:00:06 PM
That's cool Eskimo :cool: :aok  REALLY cool.
Title: My Wizard & Jedi Daughters: (Fun with special video effects)
Post by: Maverick on April 29, 2007, 05:30:13 PM
WHOA!!!!! Don't EVER make Eskimo's daughters angry!!!! :O :O




















Cool stuff there!  :aok
Title: My Wizard & Jedi Daughters: (Fun with special video effects)
Post by: Mr No Name on April 29, 2007, 05:43:59 PM
That was cool!  Fun stuff there... :D
Title: My Wizard & Jedi Daughters: (Fun with special video effects)
Post by: LePaul on April 29, 2007, 06:09:09 PM
Heh nice

Back in the Adobe Premier/After Effects days, adding a light saber was a 6 hour effort!
Title: My Wizard & Jedi Daughters: (Fun with special video effects)
Post by: ravells on April 29, 2007, 06:25:10 PM
Brilliant! Your daughter is a sweetie!

....one day she'll be a jedi and very scary!

ravs
Title: My Wizard & Jedi Daughters: (Fun with special video effects)
Post by: eskimo2 on April 29, 2007, 06:29:19 PM
Looking at the “Date Modified” of my files, I drew sabers on 58 frames in 34 minutes.  (Playback is 15 or 16 fps)  I probably spent over an hour making and trying different saber renderings.  The three saber sounds only took a few minutes to find and edit, but I got distracted and spent awhile listening to all the Star Wars parody songs and sounds; there’s some funny stuff out there.
Title: My Wizard & Jedi Daughters: (Fun with special video effects)
Post by: Suave on April 29, 2007, 06:55:06 PM
Wow that's very nice. Really it's quite good.






FOR ME TO POOP ON!
Title: My Wizard & Jedi Daughters: (Fun with special video effects)
Post by: texasmom on April 29, 2007, 11:08:15 PM
Is that a lizard on your window?
Title: My Wizard & Jedi Daughters: (Fun with special video effects)
Post by: texasmom on April 29, 2007, 11:09:42 PM
Awesome, by the way. I bet your girls enjoyed those clips when you were finished =)
Title: My Wizard & Jedi Daughters: (Fun with special video effects)
Post by: eskimo2 on April 30, 2007, 05:40:27 AM
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Originally posted by texasmom
Awesome, by the way. I bet your girls enjoyed those clips when you were finished =)


You’d think…

My five-year-old thought it looked like she was being mean to her bunny and the sparks would hurt it.  The seven-year-old dug it though.
Title: My Wizard & Jedi Daughters: (Fun with special video effects)
Post by: Yknurd on April 30, 2007, 06:43:17 AM
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Originally posted by LePaul
Heh nice

Back in the Adobe Premier/After Effects days, adding a light saber was a 6 hour effort!


And you should know!