Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine
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Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine
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#2Nice!
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#3It took 2,500 photos and 4 days to shoot, followed by about 8 days of photoshopping & grading.
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#4It took 2,500 photos and 4 days to shoot, followed by about 8 days of photoshopping & grading.
Really nice work!
How did you do the shots where the cassette tape and the engine parts are moving around in the air?
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#5It took 2,500 photos and 4 days to shoot, followed by about 8 days of photoshopping & grading.
Really nice work! How did you do the shots where the cassette tape and the engine parts are moving around in the air?
String. Coat hangers. Bits of wire. Sticks as fishing rods. We tried various ways and in the end I mainly used some conductive cotton thread that I bought from Adafruit ages ago. It was strong enough to take a lot of weight, but nice and thin too.
For the heavy stuff I just had to hold it and then photoshop my legs and arms out.
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#6It took 2,500 photos and 4 days to shoot, followed by about 8 days of photoshopping & grading.
Absolutely superb. The patience involved, that's what I can't get over about stop-motion animation – the ability to see the big picture while you're inching along frame by frame. Incredible job, it really is.
May as well put this here because it popped into my mind while watching your piece.
You know, if we do move as a society from the internal combustion engine to the electric drive train something of great beauty, mechanical logic, and engineering prowess will have been lost. Sort of humbling to think that these may only exist in the museums and enthusiast workshops of tomorrow. Kind of like steam engines today, see here: http://www.isvrally.com/ for a local example – “Innishannon Steam & Vintage Rally”
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#7Wow, that was really awesome, great work!
A small piece of critique, the last part of the video was really garbled/messy? and i kept trying to focus on the car parts, but was unable to due to it jumping around etc. So that part messed a bit with my eyes.
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#8Wow, that was really awesome, great work! A small piece of critique, the last part of the video was really garbled/messy? and i kept trying to focus on the car parts, but was unable to due to it jumping around etc. So that part messed a bit with my eyes.
agree - couldn't watch the pitch part as it was just too much noise
stop motion part was impressive though
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#9Wow. I imagined it took tons of patients (well - 4 days worth). Amazing.
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#10Great video! Really enjoyed watching it. Great lighting. Towards the end, the images get flashy (don't do this please filmmakers, it makes my head hurt).