Don't miss this little animation, involving
Océane, my little siren (playing an idiot game with the egg chair).
The Doll Inertial Gyroscopic
(a
Definitely
Idiot
Game)
Shit, I got a headache !
Candidate for the
February photo contest (cat C.).
Phicens (and miniature Dolls) are great for animations (easy to move/pose, no large space needed).
Some tips, how I made this animation:
The initial fixed pictures has been taken with my digital camera. I use a Sony DSC-HX60V mounted on a tripod (mandatory, this avoid to accidentally move the camera and change the angle of view).
To easily take pictures, my camera has an additional application onboard (from Sony store) "time lapse", explicitly named.
This allow to take sequences of pictures (and/or videos), periodically, without the need of pressing/acting anything on the camera.
Basically, "time lapse" and "stop motion" technics are the same.
So I take a series of photos, time spaced by about 15 seconds, allowing to change the pose during this delay.
Once done, I made a selection of the pictures (removing wrong and errored).
Then I edit them, crop and resize to get something like 600 x 400 resolution.
To achieve that, I use (a very old, but I'm confortable with) software from Ulead, named PhotoImpact 11.
This software include a great plugin called Ulead Gif Animator. The interface is very friendly to use, and nice to create animated GIF.
I open a new GIF, then add and organize the pictures.
The delay of each picture can be modified, text can be added, and some effects (fading, ...) can also be applied.
There is also no need to have ALL pictures for repeating sequences: you can reuse some portions, duplicate and/or reverse.
That's what I use, when the egg chair turn counter-clockwise and clockwise. The sequences are the same, but played in reverse order.
And acceleration is simply done, reducing the image delay. As pictures are only stored once and referenced by an index, this is also a good way to reduce the size of the final GIF.
Making an animated GIF is not too much complicated when you have the right tools.
The most difficult is to imagine the scenario.