Almost Sickeningly Awesome

Seriously.

Stop Motion Testing Results... at least 8 seconds of it.

Ok! I didn't spend as much time playing as I wanted to, but I did spend some time experimenting with Stop Motion yesterday. (Don't ask me why I feel compelled to Capitalize EVERYTHING!) Anyways, I tried a number of things, and the only thing that I kept was this:

Yeah, that's right. Eight seconds from start to finish. Turns out stop motion takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r. And I really suck at drawing. Even doodling. *sigh* 

But I'm going to keep at it. I'm working on the whole concept of being able to draw. And I also have some action figures I want to do more with. I guess the reason I'm chasing stop motion right now is because of those animated gifs from my last post I made while on my mission. I had so much fun making those! And they could only have a max of 10 frames.

Someday I'll complete my stop motion magnum opus. In the meantime, I'm satisfied with 8 seconds of test-video doodling footage. Go red stuff!

50 Reasons Why You Should Think that Stop Motion Video is Awesome.

Note: I don't actually have 50 reasons. 

I totally lied. 

But here are 3 (And if you look at all the stuff I have, it's really more like 9!) reasons I think it's awesome:

1. The medium. Think about it. You're either playing with clay or action figures or LEGOs! I think all educated parties agree that any time an adult can "work" with an action figure (or Play Doh or LEGOs!) and not feel judged, an angel gets its wings. 
2. The stilted animation is reminiscent of a video game. And there's something beautiful about capturing that awkward stilted movement in real life scenarios, right? 
3. These. 

There's a bajillion more on youtube. But here's a few stop motion related items that you should have seen already on my blog that I made while on my mission.

Check these out too.