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  Dancing Mannequin
May 9, 1998

This is a QuickTime movie that Sarah and I made to test a stop-motion animation technique we are planning to use with some more extensive projects. Basically, we attached a video camera to a computer that was used as a video frame-grabber. The set was nothing more than an X-Files poster I happened to have around (shocker there, eh?). The most difficult part of the whole endevour was to light it.

What's really amusing is that after we had already built the set for our next project (a claymation short) is that we realized it would have been a lot smarter to simply set up a miniature blue stage. As it is, we'll have to relight the scene each time we want to do something. Oh well, maybe we'll do that for the next project...


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