Harry's Design-Portfolio

[KillaGrunt]

Why thank you for watching them HarryButt.

[HarryButt]

Already encountered a lot of problems with image quality and camera shaking. Going to get into After Effects tomorrow to remove the worst crap-factor. Animation-wise the first take looks good so far, still 19 to go. Have to experiment with frame interpolation though, maybe I can make the animations a little more fluid.


Another shot showing off the characters. These caterpillar-turtles are actually pieces of soap.

[C.Brutail]

Looking forward for the whole movie

[KillaGrunt]

HarryButt. What program are you using to create the claymation? If you aren't using any, FrameTheif is a good solution+ it's Mac only!!!

[torus]

No, iStopmotion for Mac is by far the best.

[HarryButt]

First I'm importing the raw images into iStopMotion, do some first polishing by removing unnecessary frames, import the iStopMotion-project in AfterEffects (it's an uncompressed .mov-file), remove camera shaking with Tracker Controls, export into uncompressed Quicktime again, import the polished footage into FinalCutPro and apply the SmoothCam-filter, so that my video has as less shaking as possible.
The editing process is also done in FinalCutPro, because I'm used to edit videos with this, instead of Premiere, which happens to crash on my Mac anyway (usually while saving a project ).
Since I'm shooting in a non-chronological order it makes sense to split the work into scenes, so that each of the 20 scenes gets this treatment.
But my tripod is a cheap pile of crap, so even after all of these optimizations there's still a little shaking left...

[KillaGrunt]

I did not say it was the best torus. I said it was a good solution.

[HarryButt]

I don't know which one is better. I know both, but I got a "free" version of iStopmotion easily and now I'm working with it. Basta.
I'm almost through with half of the shooting, and here's the first screenshot of official movie footage. I'm using two layers of transparency film for that water, one on the painted paper and one above the figures to keep the reflections above them and achieve that water-gloss-effect. In the lower left corner you can see the edge of the upper film Well, I suppose, nothing's perfect.

I'm working with default DVD-resolution, which is about 700something, so my movie isn't quite HD-ready With all that shaking it wouldn't be much fun on a big screen anyway. But since my raw pictures have slightly more than HD-resolution, maybe someday... Nah, nevermind.

[Barfly]

this one make me..well wonder, I like it, i think i know what the point is in the pic

[HarryButt]

i think i know what the point is in the pic

So? Then please tell me your thoughts.
I never expected that my stuff would have any point at all. But if people can see something, so much the better.

EDIT 26.09.:

A shot of the complete set.
The movie is halfway through. I expect finishing the last take on my birthday And then continue with post-production.

EDIT 29.09.:
It's my birthday and I'm finished with shooting and I have my 512th post, so let me have that cookie now!!11
I'm not going to rush in though, my public release date is still the 12th.