I recently helped my friend Lea Redmond over at Leafcutter Designs make a cute little stop motion animation for her World’s Tiniest Post Service.
I don’t think the promotion is still available, but the tiny letters and packages, not to mention many other goodies, are still available over at her site.
We began by making a test animation of a self-assembling mailbox, to get a feel for what was possible. For the final shoot, we used an ancient web cam, multiple lamps to control the lighting, and staged part of Lea’s studio as a backdrop. Below is an image of the final rig and stage we used for the animation. Making the animation was loads of fun!
Hey, how are you? Haven’t heard from you in a while!
The funny thing is, I was just the other day thinking back to those Lego videos and looking up stop-motion video techniques.
(Also: have ordered from Leafcutter Designs before. Love their stuff)
John!
Great to hear from you. :^) Yeah, the Leafcutter stuff is fabulous.
I was thinking of you recently. Let’s chat on the phone soon. My number hasn’t changed in a while, and hopefully yours is the same, too.
ok. soooo apparently, one must click on the individual entries to leave messages. … I was on the main page trying to leave a message. (Without much success as you can imagine ^^;)
and your new site rocks!