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As a cautionary tale about the waxing and waining relevance of various online properties, remember that Kina Grannis was more or less launched on Digg: http://indigitalmarketing.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/digg-help...
This is the type of thing that you wouldn't have done 10 years ago because noone would have found out about it. Reminds me of the Amazing Honda Accord commercial - the Cog... Rube Goldberg machine all done without CGI (5 months of pre-work, then 605 takes until they got to one that didn't screw up somewhere) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo They did a lot of work that they could've avoided with CGI, but whe…
Consider the Peter Gabriel videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=F0FBi5Rv1ho
both of which feature various types of stop-motion animation as well as other effects.
Also consider the works of Bruce Bickford whom Frank Zappa hired to work on several videos. This guy is a genius/savant, I don't know which. Zappa saw the genius and funded some incredible work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6UgzNJfpfA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2fyvfX_gLo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO4PlvIE6bk
You also might want to check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
and their other videos, which aren't stop-motion but are incredible videos made without CGI.
There's tons more out there to find if you look.
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…
That's what I get for posting when tired... gotta get some sleep.
"22 months, 1,357 hours, 30 people" If you consider that big budget music videos can have ~100 people working on it (casting, production crew and post crew) each putting in at least 12-16 hours, this falls right in line with the amount of people hours that's typical for a music label.
If you just look at the number of hours, it's "just" a full time job for a year: 8 hours a day * 200 working days = 1600 hours With 30 people working just a week (5 days), we're already at 1200 hours. Maybe they got their hours wrong? Or it's not that impressive (I'm a grumpy old man).
The behind the scenes video shows details of the process. I found it fascinating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIH4MJAC2Tg
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that behind the scenes video doesn't give that information. Although they did shot last frame last, they didn't say that they shot them in order. Also they only shot 2300 whereas the clip at 24 fps would have taken 4920 though the 'real' frame seems to be lower. Finally moving around jelly beans is a lot easier than setting up the scene from scratch, as mentioned, a frame took 5 minutes to 3 hours to setup. t…
they didn't say that they shot them in order. She implied it when she said that after every day, they could see the progression up until that point.
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 will agree that there is hive minded voting - I've complained about it plenty of times - but in this case I think my up vote made sense and that's without me realizing who was posting it (just like I didn't bother even seeing what your handle was until I started typing this). Hope that gives you a point of view from one person (who didn't down vote you).