A new small experiment

The goal behind this experiment was first of all to create an animation through stop motion technique. This is done by making a picture of every individual movement. When the individual pictures are played one after another in a sequence it creates the idea of movement. This kind of technique is used in movies like, "the corpse Bride" from Tim Burton. The next step is to remove all the clutter out of the pictures that is not needed, for this I use Photoshop. It also creates the possibility to adjust small defects in the alignement and other things like removing the wires that I used to hold the cameras door in place. The next step is resizing (also for memory reasons) and exporting all layers as individual PSD files. Then I create an automated batch command to transform the files in PNG. This creates an alpha layer around the camera thus the idea the camera is floating as a free object. The next step is importing all the PNG files into Flash and put them on a timeline. The rest is scripting the behaviors of the buttons in relation to the animation. The main idea eventually is to use the desk with items as an interactive menu, the inspiration comes from Pierre Jeunet his movie "Delicatessen" where he used items from a butchery as intro for the movie. So now leaving the technical details, feel free to play around.....

Here to view the larger version! The used example picture is from Laurens Aaij, winner of the Silver Camera more here

The Magic of 3D Art

A combination of DAZ 3D, Photoshop and Flash can lead to beautiful effects in animations. For this I choose to work with *.png exports, that I filter thru a batch command in Photoshop. Then it's imported into flash and put on a timeline frame by frame to make the animation come to life. If you like to learn more about this kind of animations, give me a comment and I will give you additional information.