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Re: Stop motion video shot over 2 years with 288,000 jelly beans

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Post by DougBTX »

freemarketteddy wrote: post #18
freemarketteddy wrote: post #14

See this post is a testament to Hacker News's decline.Not because I think that post doesnt have something interesting or intellectually arousing to say.It absolutely does.I create things too and I understand the importance of creation especially when it takes two years to make something. The reason is because of how this post got on the front page of Hacker News.In normal circumstances I can bet that this post maybe…

If you wish to disagree please do so but write down the reason for your disagreement.Also how is this against HN Comment guidelines? EDIT: Okay I get it. From HN Guidelines "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)" Sorry I was not aware of that.

It's OK, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

Re: Stop motion video shot over 2 years with 288,000 jelly beans

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Post by ScottBurson »

Technically, of course, this is time-lapse video, not stop-motion. Stop-motion slows things down (hence the name); time-lapse speeds them up, which is clearly what's happened here.

Terminological pickiness aside, this is very cool. I wasn't aware of Kina Grannis before, and probably would have stayed that way but for this video, so it seems to be accomplishing its purpose.

Edited to add: the song is pretty, too.

Re: Stop motion video shot over 2 years with 288,000 jelly beans

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Post by mbreese »

flixic wrote: post #20
rorrr wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can think of many ways how to make this whole process much much easier. The amount of unnecessary work they did is just insane.

Could you explain? Do you suggest using some kind of CG or greenscreen, or what?

Well, one thing they could have done that wouldn't have changed their stop-motion commitment would have been to use more than a frames worth of jelly beans. Instead they could have made one long movable landscape. Then they could have adjusted the "viewport" by moving the camera or the landscape. As it is, it looks like they moved each "pixel" for each frame.

Re: Stop motion video shot over 2 years with 288,000 jelly beans

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Post by sukuriant »

ScottBurson wrote: post #22

Technically, of course, this is time-lapse video, not stop-motion. Stop-motion slows things down (hence the name); time-lapse speeds them up, which is clearly what's happened here. Terminological pickiness aside, this is very cool. I wasn't aware of Kina Grannis before, and probably would have stayed that way but for this video, so it seems to be accomplishing its purpose. Edited to add: the song is pretty, too.

Stop motion (also known as stop action) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. [Wikipedia]

[They set up a scene, took a photo]*numFrames. This is stop motion photography as much "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is.

Re: Stop motion video shot over 2 years with 288,000 jelly beans

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Post by freemarketteddy »

DougBTX wrote: post #21
freemarketteddy wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you wish to disagree please do so but write down the reason for your disagreement.Also how is this against HN Comment guidelines? EDIT: Okay I get it. From HN Guidelines "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)" Sorry I was not aware of that.

It's OK, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

So that means that my incompetence made me blind from the greatness of this post!

Well its possible but I am not buying that right now.

What I would buy is that maybe I have not reached a sufficient level of karma to comment on Hacker News administration.

Re: Stop motion video shot over 2 years with 288,000 jelly beans

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Post by VBprogrammer »

freemarketteddy wrote: post #18
freemarketteddy wrote: post #14

See this post is a testament to Hacker News's decline.Not because I think that post doesnt have something interesting or intellectually arousing to say.It absolutely does.I create things too and I understand the importance of creation especially when it takes two years to make something. The reason is because of how this post got on the front page of Hacker News.In normal circumstances I can bet that this post maybe…

If you wish to disagree please do so but write down the reason for your disagreement.Also how is this against HN Comment guidelines? EDIT: Okay I get it. From HN Guidelines "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)" Sorry I was not aware of that.

I have never heard of the user who submitted this. We both agree that the video stimulates our intellectual curiosity. The means by which this ended up on the front page isn't a concern.

Re: Stop motion video shot over 2 years with 288,000 jelly beans

#28

Post by freemarketteddy »

DougBTX wrote: post #21
freemarketteddy wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you wish to disagree please do so but write down the reason for your disagreement.Also how is this against HN Comment guidelines? EDIT: Okay I get it. From HN Guidelines "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)" Sorry I was not aware of that.

It's OK, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

So that means that my incompetence made me blind from the greatness of this post!

Well its possible but I am not buying that right now.

What I would buy is that maybe I have not reached a sufficient level of karma to comment on Hacker News administration.

Re: Stop motion video shot over 2 years with 288,000 jelly beans

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Post by robterrell »

ScottBurson wrote: post #22

Technically, of course, this is time-lapse video, not stop-motion. Stop-motion slows things down (hence the name); time-lapse speeds them up, which is clearly what's happened here. Terminological pickiness aside, this is very cool. I wasn't aware of Kina Grannis before, and probably would have stayed that way but for this video, so it seems to be accomplishing its purpose. Edited to add: the song is pretty, too.

That's just wrong. Overcraking (running the film through the camera faster than normal) slows motion down. Undercranking speeds it up.

Stop-motion doesn't slow things down; it's a technique where you expose one frame of film, move something (usually a model) slightly, and expose the next frame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_motion

Stop-motion animation examples include the original King Kong, Sinbad and all those other Ray Harryhausen films, the AT-ATs in Empire Strikes Back. (And there was also a technique called "Go motion" animation where the puppet was moved during the frame exposure, thus causing motion blur, and making for a much more realistic animation, which was used for the dragon in DragonSlayer and I think some of Return of the Jedi.)

If you want to get really pedantic, probably the best term for this jellybean video is "pixilation". I know we use that word differently nowadays, but before computer graphics were common, "pixilation" was the term for stop-motion animated real-world objects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixilation

Thank you for letting my nearly pointless film degree not go entirely to waste.

Re: Stop motion video shot over 2 years with 288,000 jelly beans

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Post by juiceandjuice »

dholowiski wrote: post #4

No MVP here - they went all the way the first time. Be sure to switch to 1080p and go full screen, it's breathtaking. But it makes me wonder, what is the ROI on this? Will they really make back the wages of 30 people for 22 months, and how long will it take?

The ROI is name recognition and differentiation, with the goal of a recording contract.
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