Stop Motion Animation by Optimistic Penguin Productions
Opening Song: Jap by the Abingdon Boys School
Main Song: Can't Be Tamed by Miley Cyrus
Ending Song: The Girl In Byakkoya by Hirasawa Susumu
I just want to say thank you to everyone for all the lovely comments!!!!! You guys are awesome, really made my day ^^
Now I will answer some of your questions collectively.
1) Hahahahaha... I am not a Miley Cyrus fan either, not by any stretch of the imagination, but hearing this song, which I have to admit is kind-of a cool song, the line "Don't Change Me" sparked the idea for the video, I thought 'wouldn't it be awesome if a figures body kept being changed during this line!' and thus I just had to make the video.
2) I use 15 photo's per second for the animation
3) The 'special effects' are no secret, I used a photo-editing program PhotoScape, downloadable free and legal here, with this I added the effects, and yes they were photo by photo, I don't have any software which can do fancy stuff over the top of film so all effects and edits were done photo by photo
4) I pieced the video together by creating a series of GIF files in the photo program then importing them into Sony Vegas Pro, which I downloaded a free 30 day trail from here
5) As to how long it took me, I do not know the precise hours as I didn't time them, but I worked on it in a period of three weeks, with the majority of the work done the first four days of the first week, then a little bit of editing in the second week, and finishing it off this week.
I hope that has answered all of your questions, and thanks again for all the comments ^^;
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Haha, this was so awesome n_n Great job! I am wondering, how many photos per second do you use for the moving parts? I want to try to make a stopmotion myself, but I'm not sure how many would give a fluent animation as yours does :)
For film perfect you need 24 per second, but I used 15 per second, you can't really do more than that with articulated figures as they don't have very subtle movements :P
Well if you used 15fps I will as well XD It looks very good and fluent already, so 24fps is just overkill XD;
I can only say that that was a very impressive job well done
This is interesting! love how the face changes! But how come Byakkoya no Musume was only featured for a few secs at the end! I love that song! xD
here's another great stop motion I saw recently http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvxxXGz8wjA
very good work!!
I just can imagine all the hours you had to do to acomplish this. ^^
Thanks Phossil, and yeah it did ^^; but was fun
Wow this is amazing! Adding those effects one by one with photoscape and then piece em up is really very tedious but the results are really good! I also use photoscape a lot too haha.
Maybe next time instead of changing the figma body can maybe change the head like michael jackson's black or white video haha ^^
Hahaha that was awesome! I agree with Chubbs. you've really put in a lot of effort in this one. something I wouldn't do =P
Hi my first time here.
amazing video,really worth of your 3 weeks effort,poor vash.
by the way congratulation for your Digirama(erection *LOL*) contest result.
Thanks, Chubby, Astray, and Aya ^^;
The rider sadako is so scary! D:
nice effort for the stop motion, you have great design sense :D
btw nice blog, did u design this blog?
Thanks B-Mecha,
about the site I used a template but I altered a lot of things myself to make it my own, like the banner and the buttons on the side bar XD
I should do something like that, featuring the SOS Brigade girls in their culture festival outfits! ^o^ (Not a perv)
Oops! I shouldn't have said that last part! >.<
lols XD
Yeah, I didn't want you to think that I was calling you a pervert since you once owned them, so that's why I bailed from what I said ^>^;
Incredible, effort well spent.
I like how the song fits perfectly, even if I'm not a fan of the singer. that's some dedication! :D
Looks very good ^_^ This really encourages me to really get through the one I've been planning for a while, but I'm being lazy still XD Oh and the summer heat doesn't help either. I want to take those photos, but dammit it's freaking hot!
lol I know how you feel it does require a lot of effort, plus since I used photography lighting it was really hot XD and it's winter here!
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