{"id":22,"date":"2010-12-30T12:46:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T20:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.levitylab.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2021-06-07T09:47:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:47:01","slug":"magic-mailbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.levitylab.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/magic-mailbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Mailbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently helped my friend Lea Redmond over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leafcutterdesigns.com\/\">Leafcutter Designs<\/a> make a cute little stop motion animation for her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leafcutterdesigns.com\/shop\/wsps\/about.html\">World&#8217;s Tiniest Post Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/16601687\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/16601687\">WSPS Mailbox Toy<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user990936\">Leafcutter Designs<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p-->\n<p>I don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"stopmotion-rig.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.levitylab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/stopmotion-rig.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Stopmotion rig\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently helped my friend Lea Redmond over at Leafcutter Designs make a cute little stop motion animation for her World&#8217;s Tiniest Post Service. I don&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levitylab.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/magic-mailbox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magic Mailbox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.levitylab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.levitylab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.levitylab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.levitylab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.levitylab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.levitylab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.levitylab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.levitylab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.levitylab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}