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Nice animations it must off took ages to do it

wow. that's really good

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Originally posted by Eddie
Lol thats cool, nice job, you sure put a lot of effort into these.

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Yeah I did there's a few I'm not exactly happy with but they'll do

It's hard to judge effort v quality though, because members of my class put a lot of effort in (whereas I put effort in but I know how it works/works in theory and can imagine how many frames I'll need to do what I want), but their animations aren't as good quality as mine

Not meaning to sound big headed/hurtful at all with that statement, someone's laugh is way better than mine for example, but most people seemed to fail to grasp 24 Frames Per Second = 24 photos are needed, some worked on 2's {doubling up frames} but then some people also kept changing the playback speed too, which although slows down/speeds up the animation to look better whilst playing, doesn't help the actual taken photos look any better when exporting (does anyone understand me ?)

I can see that they've improved as time went on however so maybe once they've grasped editing they'll have it looking good.

I have still have lots to do, will be a big struggle for me to finish it.

Pretty cool, I remember doing a short one in high school, takes a  lot of damn patience. =)

nice, some people on this forum have talent!

I LOVED the water droplet. Very awesome work. ;]

thanks

I'll post the 20second one tomorrow if i get it started and finished

Watching that, memories of watching some kids shows using that technique and wondering "how on earth do they do that?". Pro stuff, keep it up

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Originally posted by Kezzinator29
Watching that, memories of watching some kids shows using that technique and wondering "how on earth do they do that?". Pro stuff, keep it up

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It's such a brilliant medium to work in. Ever since I first saw Wallace and Gromit I wanted to do it.

It truly can create a magical feel and leave you asking questions as you yourself said.

I think it's a real shame there's more and more CG animated TV Shows pushed to kids these day, the magic is out of it because everyone knows it's not real and anything and everything can be done with it these days. Sure I've enjoyed and respected a few, the more creative ones usually (I have no problem with CG Films). But in general I don't care much for CG or anime TV shows for kids.

I think you/kids can't relate to it which makes a big difference. People can, will and do go on forever about old cartoons and can relate to others with them too, I've met people in their adulthood who still wondered how clangers was made!

I'll make an example using "Button Moon" a very cheap puppet production where most of the characters and models were made from Kitchen Utensils Mr. Spoon being the main character, had a rocketship clearly made from a Heinz baked Beans tin simple stuff that most kids could relate too, not that I'm saying kids shows needs to be cheap and made with bean tins but it was very popular at the time (and I've seen some Button moon T-shirts about too).

There are timeless classics like Bagpuss and Old Bear Stories that used toys as their characters, something all kids of all ages have and love.

I found a good list of old and new stop-motion animations on Toonhound.com

Stop-motion series

  THE ADVENTURES OF PARSLEY
  ANDY PANDY  (Cosgrove Hall)
  ASTRO FARM 
  BAGPUSS
  BERTHA
  BILL AND BEN (Cosgrove Hall)       
  BOB THE BUILDER
  BOB THE BUILDER: PROJECT:BUILD IT
  BRAMBLY HEDGE
  BROOMSTICK COTTAGE 
  CAMBERWICK GREEN
  CHARLIE CHALK
  CHIGLEY   
  CHORLTON AND THE WHEELIES
  THE CLANGERS   
  COCKLESHELL BAY
  CREEPY CRAWLIES
  DOCTOR OTTER
  EDWARD AND FRIENDS
  EL NOMBRE
  ENGIE BENJY
  FIFI AND THE FLOWERTOTS
  FIREMAN SAM
  THE FLUMPS   
  THE GINGERBREAD MAN
  GOGS!     
  GRAN
  GRANDMA BRICKS OF SWALLOW STREET
  GRIZZLY TALES FOR GRUESOME KIDS
  THE GUBLIN LEGENDS       
  HATTYTOWN TALES     
  THE HERBS 
  HUXLEY PIG
  JOSHUA JONES
  THE KOALA BROTHERS
  LAVENDER CASTLE   
  LITTLE RED TRACTOR
  LITTLE ROBOTS
  MAGIC ROUNDABOUT
  MERLIN THE MAGICAL PUPPY
  MOLLY'S GANG
  MORPH
  MOSCHOPS
  NODDY
  OAKIE DOKE
  OH! MR TOAD!
  OLD BEAR AND FRIENDS
  PADDINGTON
  PINGWINGS
  POGLES WOOD
  PORTLAND BILL
  POSTMAN PAT (Ivor Wood)
  POSTMAN PAT (Cosgrove Hall)
  REX THE RUNT
  ROCKY AND THE DODOS
  ROCKY HOLLOW
  RUBBADUBBERS
  SALLY AND JAKE
  SKIP AND FUFFY
  STORIES FROM TOYTOWN
  THE STORY STORE
  SUMMERTON MILL
  TOM AND VICKY
  THE TRAPDOOR
  TRUCKERS
  TRUMPTON
  UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS BEARS
  WIND IN THE WILLOWS
  THE WOMBLES
  YOHO AHOY

Wow thats really neat