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Posted On 08/31/2008 09:07:37 by jahnocli

Hello everybody!

Just what the world needs -- another blog! Well, let me introduce myself. I'm an old English geezer who has been interested in animation all his life. I went to art school in the sixties (yes, I DID inhale) and I've had a multitude of jobs, almost all of them involving art or computers or both.

In recent times I've become increasingly interested in stop motion animation. I've been reading up on the subject, trying things out, stumbling around the internet, and here I am...

My hard disks are littered with the debris of unfinished projects, so I'm trying to get some discipline into my work and adopt a (semi-)progessional production schedule. At present I am writing a series of short (3-minute) Hellboy fan movies, using action figures. I find that writing a script, then drawing out a storyboard, means I have the best chance of finishing anything. I don't want to say too much in advance of showing anything, because for me, it is then as though I have already done it, in a funny way!

So I'll be uploading some tests in the coming days -- look forward to any criticism/comments.

Over and out.

J

Tags: Stopmotion Animation Action Figure



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From: bobharling1
09/02/2008 00:58:25

welcome to the site and good luck with the Hellboy films. I saw the one photo, looks awesome



From: jahnocli
08/31/2008 09:38:22

(couldn't wait!) Although it's strange to be commenting on your own blog entry (!), I couldn't resist putting a simple photo in my gallery of Hellboy in an alleyway. I used StopMotion Recorder, exported a JPEG frame into Photoshop, brushed out the action figure seams and voila!

Used an "old movie" effect to make it look like heavy rain (and the duotone effect also unifies all the very disparate elements in the scene), then used GooderVideo's 'SteadyHand' software to iron out all the jumping between frames.

Will be adding more soon.




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