Monday, March 29, 2010

Stuck in a daydream.

Sometimes I get in trouble in my English class for giggling about something I thought of. My thoughts wander rather frequently to worlds between cardboard forests and neverlands and somewhere over the rainbow. People aren't always so serious there.


I found that I had to wait on a few things before going back to work on animations for my documentary. So I took a breather and made an animation sketch. Mainly, I wanted to test out my remote and how it works for animations. Not bad, not bad at all.


I have to meet with a wonderful dancer about an animation collaboration right now. And afterwards, I will be working on my documentary. But somewhere between there, I believe I will put this animation on YouTube. It's all edited, but I took these stills into Photoshop and found that I like this look better than the natural light. So I think I may do some batch processing first. And then I will share it with you.

What do you daydream about?

2 comments:

mel said...

hey, just curious, which program are you using to make the stills into video? (future reference for me)

Michaela Lynch said...

Mel,
For projects like this, what I call animation "sketches," I just use iMovie, since it's the only video editing program I currently have on my Mac. Windows Movie Maker works as well if you have a pc. Just look for a way to change the default still duration (these are at .1 seconds). For my "serious" stop motions, I use Premiere and After Effects. Hope this helps!