Hi everyone,

This is a short 2:30min film I made about a month back with my Canon XH-A1 called 'The Baked Apple'.
http://www.undergroundfilm.com/films/viewer.tcl?oftype=lar&wid=1034921

I enjoyed that. It had a cool 'trippy factor'.

I would like to know how you did the bits that I assume weren't stop motion, but looked it... like when the actor was in the shot.

Nice work.

Thanks Dennis, glad you enjoyed it.

The process of animating a person is called Pixilation (basically the same as stop-motion only you're animating people instead of objects). What you do is position the actor, capture a frame, position actor, capture a frame, position actor, and so on. The shots I did in this film are very basic pixilation but with a little creativity and an extremely vigorous actor, one can pull off some fantastic shots. Norman McLaren's film 'Neighbors' is a great example - it's one of my all-time favorite films.

Thanks Dennis, glad you enjoyed it.

The process of animating a person is called Pixilation (basically the same as stop-motion only you're animating people instead of objects). What you do is position the actor, capture a frame, position actor, capture a frame, position actor, and so on. The shots I did in this film are very basic pixilation but with a little creativity and an extremely vigorous actor, one can pull off some fantastic shots. Norman McLaren's film 'Neighbors' is a great example - it's one of my all-time favorite films.


So are you saying the actor froze in a position, you took a shot, got them to move slightly more, took a shot etc?

Yes, that's right.

Very cool! Great ending as well. How long did this take to shoot?

Mike

that was excellent, suspensful and somewhat disturbing.... you're ready for the horror genre

did you use a 35m adaptor or the stock lens on the A1?

trish

Thanks guys - this film was a one day shoot and then a few weeks for the post. I just used the stock lens for this film. Glad you feel I'm ready for the horror genre Trish because I'm actually planning to write a horror film this fall/winter.

Very cool! Visually stunning! But I must say the soundtrack was so annoying that I had to turn it down!

yeah the visuals in this was amazing to me.I was trippin over here just trying to figure out how you pulled some of those shots and sequenses off. great work

Derrick: Thanks, glad you enjoyed the film and it's visuals.

Michael: Thanks too - sorry the sound annoyed you, it would help if you specified whether the annoyance was caused from a technical stand point or if it was because you simply did not care for the sounds. I forgot to compress the dynamic sound range after completion of the film so I think some of the higher pitch sounds may cause irritation when listened to loudly.