Bumblebee is alive

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ronnie_gogs

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I recently got a Canon SX110 IS camera. One of the reasons why I bought this camera apart from the awesome discount was that it can be controlled by computer and even its firmware can be modified to unlock many features. Although I haven't tried hacking my cam yet but I wanted to try out something why I had wanted to do for a long time.
Stop Motion Animation. And I recently bought Bumblebee (action figure) just for this experiment.

So today I tried to make a really small clip of basically Bumblebee moving his head around

Took 141 snaps taken via Remote capture utility of Canon
Used AnimatorDV Simple+ to make the video from the still images.
141 pictures at 7 fps to get a measly 20 second clip out....

So here it is my small video after 5 hours :( of running around setting Bumblebee up and taking a snap....

Sample image :
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The Remote capture utility allows me to set the aperture (2.8) macro focus, shutter speed and even control zoom.... which helps a lot

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This is my first attempt at animation of any kind.... if anyone here knows more about Animation and more specifically stop motion I would really like to learn more and hopefully make something like this one day :ashamed:

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ronnie_gogs said:
I recently got a Canon SX110 IS camera. One of the reasons why I bought this camera apart from the awesome discount was that it can be controlled by computer and even its firmware can be modified to unlock many features. Although I haven't tried hacking my cam yet but I wanted to try out something why I had wanted to do for a long time.
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Hacking my cam !!!

Lol, somehow thats not what i 'think' of hardware that is hackable.

Looks like you have a good buy there and lots of fun ahead :)

Wow, thats some patience.

What did Wallace & Gromitt take :O
 
Hey, how much it costed for Transformers Action figures? I believe it's from Funskool, isn't it?
 
Hey stopmotion involves breaking down of a normal action (run cycle) into frames and shooting them at 25 frames per second as you keep animating your object.

Let me know if you want to know anything specific in detail.

Check out the video Her Morning Elegance for a beautiful example of stop motion.

watch it here
 
great job. if it had a decent plot it would already be better than the new movie :D

Actually you can do a good job even with just 2 or 3 frames per second(and I think its typically less than 25fps even for pro stuff) as long as what's going on in front of the camera is interesting. I don't know anything about animation either but I would recommend taking the main poses first and then adding in the transitions to make it easier.
 
wow! nice work

i am, however, more interested in the Bumblebee model....where can i get it? are there any other transformers available too?
 
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