Comments on: Home-made frame capture stand

By: Sunny

Sunny — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:15:52 +0000

Thanks! I really appreciate it.

I think such cheap, lo-fi means of creating indie stop-mo are essential today. The medium has been relegated for far too long, and I’d love to see it share the throne with CG and drawn animation. If every stop-mo student/enthusiast makes and uses one of these boxes, it’s a start.

By: StopMotionCentral

StopMotionCentral — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:27:14 +0000

Nice frame capture box. Cheap and effective. Good job.

By: Ashley Boddy

Ashley Boddy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:24:00 +0000

Hi Sunny,

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. I'm pretty busy at the moment (back at Aardman!), but I'll try and put a post up about animating in photoshop ASAP. I figured you might be a fan of Aardman given the model making etc.

Good piece about rule breaking...all very true.

By: Ashley Boddy

Ashley Boddy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:30:00 +0000

hey there. We used to do something like what you are doing back when I was at college. We had animation desks and if you arranged the shleves right then you could jam a collapsed tri-pod in and stick a small camcorder on it looking straight down at you disc. All you had to do was hook it up to a laptop, lean back and capture with monkeyJam…instant line test! It was also pretty cool to record as you animated and then play back at high speed…lots of head bobbing and quick flipping!

By: sunny kharbanda

sunny kharbanda — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:20:00 +0000

Thanks, Vince! Glad you like it. Stay tuned for some animation updates, stop-mo or otherwise!

By: Vince Gorman

Vince Gorman — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:43:00 +0000

I too have an interest in Stop Mo. I like your puppet, I’ll check back for some animation.