Thanks for your comments about Ian’s movie, he was thrilled to know that others were watching it! I’m trying to respond in the comments section of each post to save time and keep a better dialogue going. Also, I’ve been updating the look around here, so if you are reading in bloglines, go to the blog to view the new header. Jay upgraded my version of Wordpress and it has better features for editing so I can actually update the look myself. I’m very excited about that. It’s given me new energy to keep this thing going!
Alright, now to the how to. I read about stop motion animation a while back here and have watched way too many on utube with the boys. We’ve talked about wanting to make our own. With some time on our hands, Ian and I decided to give it a try.
We searched “stop motion” in Google and found this site. The first paragraph mentioned being patient and having time as something to consider before starting this project. I chuckled quietly to myself, since I knew upfront that I only had time on my side. Patience is not one of my virtues.
We already had the scene set-up, so we were off to take pictures and make it look like these guys were moving. Once the pictures were taken, 5 minutes later, we downloaded them and then recruited our computer guy for some help via Google chat. He talked us through the process in Windows Movie Maker. The trickiest part was uploading the music, estimated time: 30-45min, very frustrating but lesson learned. We had the most fun with the story; Ian was belly laughing as he dictated the story to my while I typed.
We have plans to either add to this movie or create a sequel. This might get addicting!
Captain Brickbeard and his crew defeat the soldiers
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