Ball bounces - Stop motion

After my last failure in stop motion, I ended up venting to Poli, and she really doesn't enjoy stop motion because of its tedious nature. So we both decided to work together the next time we did stop motion. I have to say that it was far more enjoyable with another person there as a second pair of eyes I think is always great to have, especially in art as your eyes can play tricks on you and tell something looks correct but in reality it's far from accurate. We were quite dead but we thought it would be best to record footage so have something to go off.

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It saddens me that poli doesn't enjoy stop motion because she a great eye for it and her method of working through it is far better than mine. When I was alone I was just doing frame after frame blasting through as fast as I could but with poli, she would flip through the last few previous frames before committing to the shot and moving on to the next frame. This makes complete sense and I guess I'm just a bit dumb for not doing because it's so obvious, it also gives you a chance to redo the frame before moving on. We ended up doing two ball bounces each, a bouncy ball (we couldn't get a pingpong) and a bowling ball. We both aced through it in record time, happy with what we produced. It was one the more enjoyable instances of stop motion I've had, maybe because I had a friend with me or maybe because it done so quickly. Anyway next time I'm definitely doing it again with Poli.

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munty bouncyball STOPM from muntasir chowdhurry on Vimeo.

Comments

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