March to April 4th 2012 "weather"

March to April 4th 2012 "weather"

Alright everyone, this is the topic Buckner chose two months ago as the challenge winner of January to February. Since we're not sure how we'll move forward yet with the future challenges we're going to stick to the normal way of doing things before. Simply pick an idea based around the term "weather" and post a link in this thread.

We'll discuss how we will move forward during the next live show after more people submit ideas in the other topic I created before this. It seems so far that mashing up different routines might be the most popular idea.

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Re: March to April 4th 2012 "weather"

I would start right now, but I can't record voices because I'm just recovering from the flu. I definitely have an idea however, so count me in.

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I have an Idea, it would be my first official stop-motion clay video...  I have made some short few second things here and there for examples but not anything of this caliber!  we will see if I can actually make time to do this... send your energies my way!

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Nederer- can you start making stuff for it, until your voice recovers?   (Or do a really rough character voice like Tom Waits on life support...)
Lwaters -  sending those energies!
Anyone else thinking about doing this one?
 
I have a pre-order in for a fully folding, 1:6 scale  black Umbrella, that was supposed to be available in March - thought it would be an ideal prop for"weather".   But now the eBay listing says it won't be released until May, so I'll have to forget that idea.   Or go with a paper umbrella like you get in a cocktail...  I actually have a short, simple idea for a change. 
I shouldn't even be thinking about doing this - still got sets to build for someone else, so I can't just use them for the challenge - but getting to fill in with 4 seconds on the ad  for Feb was fun.

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I'm a-thinkin' -- but those thoughts are often waylaid before something concrete appears...I'm thinking of illustratig part of a poem by Victor Hernández Cruz. It's about hurricanes, and it's funny in a grim sort of way (my favourite kind of humour). Working on a couple of character designs at the moment.

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When I was in the army in North Carolina, a bunch of my fellow soldier went to play football in the hurricane...  eventually the MPs made them stop...  I am assuming with a hurricane stop motion you will have some stuff flying around.  I want to have my caracter and some stuff flying around in mine... what is the best way to get things to fly in stop motion... wires? hidden stands? editing? the force?  any tutorials or suggestions would be appreciated!

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^^ Most people build a rig and then edit it out in post.  A solid block of wood fitted to your table with wire built into it usually does the trick.  There are also a lot of helpful topics on stopmotionanimation.com -- just search "flying rig."

This challenge looks like fun.  I'd really like to do something with rain.  Should be interesting smile

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So far I'm just throwing ideas around, although I would love to try to time it with music.

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i don't know what im going to do...maybe something with spring. oh yeah and the force is the way to go...I'm lucky enough to have a Jedi consular just down the street.  big_smile

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Here's the picture I tried to show on the live show. I accidentally posted the wrong one because the thumbnails looked so similar to me and the camera didn't exactly upload the right photo to DropBox.  mad

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12354159/2012-03-14%2022.00.41.jpg

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