Dann-O opened this issue on Feb 04, 2011 · 17 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Thu, 10 February 2011 at 3:33 PM
Quote - I imagine it can be hard on your back. WEll I am in the process of moving to a new home and wan tto get into that when i get there because I will have extra space. I want to get away from the PC onc ein a while too and do all those other things associated with stop motion from sculpting to making scenery etc.
I know just what you mean about getting away from the PC now and then, and that's really a very necessary thing to do, or you can really hurt yourself.
I am trying to take regular little trips out - photographing, for new textures, scenic backgrounds and just nice and interesting things., partly for the exercise (I just can't keep up walking with no object, but walking to take photographs, that's different) partly so I'm not sitting at the PC exacerbating my neck injury, and partly for the photos themselves.
I loved making the scenery, props and characters for stop motion, I could quite happily have just done that without needing to go to the filming part. But then the filming part is very satisfying too, especially when you can see the action building in front of you - but it's the leaning over and infinitesimally adjusting the positions of characters etc continuously, sometimes for hour after hour - that's the bit that does your back in. After that you've got editing and meshing the sound to the action, for speech sometimes it's meshing the infinitesimal adjustments of characters to the sound, i.e. starting with the sound track. The voice part anyway.
Oh I did love all that stuff. I really envy you getting into all that.
if your scenery making is anything like mine was, you'll need it. I took over an entire classroom for one of mine.
Ah... happy days.
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)