Magic Mailbox
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!
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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!