Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Moe's Disco Dance - Contest Entry!

During my time practicing the animation with Moe I came across this contest at etsy.com - a place to buy/sell handcrafted goods. What better than a stop motion animation to fit the theme: "A Handmade Moment".

So I tried a couple of different moves and for the past few days have been working on just this little tiny 30 second clip as an entry. It's amazing what you can learn doing something like this and I've certainly gained a mountain of knowledge from doing this minuscule clip. It seemed easy to do at first but post-production (mostly cause of my own laziness during animation) took far longer than I anticipated. Never-the-less after just two normal work days and then two sleepless nights I've completed it and I'm pretty satisfied.

Any tips / critiques about the animation are extremely welcome. If you really like it drop a vote - but I'd love a comment about anything I can do to up the animation game. Thanks for lookin'!

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  2. woops, i thought the animation was pretty neat and demonstrated your progress well. the popping robot part didn't look as smooth as i'd like--but i don't know if that was on purpose (considering joe is an old guy) or not. the clip itself for the contest was kind of lacking creatively though... too simple--maybe you could have shown him actually put on music or something like that

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  3. Haha, yeah I wanted to at least put the sound in when he walks off screen - like an tape insert but the requirement was that it be 30 seconds flat and I couldn't even fit that sound byte (3 seconds) in there. The constraints suck because the titles are kind of a must. The robot part I made him do like a tiny jiggle at each hit to imitate the bounce back that a lot of people when doing the robot. Maybe that played out badly haha. Thanks for the feedback though Pha.

    I'm learning that "at laaaaast" bit you posted :)

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  4. This is really clever, Tony. And you actually did something! Wooo hoo!

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  5. Hi there, thanks for dropping by my blog! Your puppet work looks awesome! I wish I had the patience for it! :) Loving your etsy comp entry, the animation looks great!

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  6. Yeah Shelley haha, something actually done! Thanks for stopping by as well Rich / Steff!

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  7. Vaoww Tony, Moe is very good at disco dancing!!

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  8. so exciting!

    MORE MORE...

    jriggity

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