How did you do it? I have no idea of stopmotion

How did you do it? I have no idea of stopmotion

I think he edited out transparent bricks that held up the cup.

What program do you use?

For the floating cup animation, I use a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 webcam and software included with that, Photoshop 7.0 Elements and Microsoft GIF animator. The steps for actually doing it is extremely extensive. Took me over a half hour to make that 13 frame animation.

For the NES sprites, I made the sprites in Paint, saved them in Paint and loaded them into Microsoft GIF animator. They're pretty easy.

How did you do it? I have no idea of stopmotion

Basic concept of stopmotion is take a picture, move the character, take another picture, move the character, and so on. Extremely time consuming process. Once you've got the pictures, add them into a program and have them animate. For the floating cup animation, I use a thing called Masking to make it fly. Masking is complex and I won't go into it without request.

How did you do it? I have no idea of stopmotion

I think he edited out transparent bricks that held up the cup.

Basically, but you can use any bricks you want. I used gold/trans teal 1x1 round studs for mine.

Hope this helps

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Sprite me . Or make a kit and include an Olmak.

I might have you, and a couple friends, be characters like the citizens of assorted towns and stuff. Maybe a boss of an evil castle. Or even Makuta himself. I dunno

And I will NOT NOT NOT post this kit. Every single darn person will be like "zomg no shading" "it looks so old olololo" "you look stoopid" "where da poses"

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Maybe you can PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send it to me? I hoard kits in that huge spritesheet that exists on the internet.

I may send you your sprites. Prolly not the whole kit, but who knows.

-S

When looking closely you can see the anamation so thats good as it shows the realism in it.

The sprites are <3

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Lord Oblivion

Obviously you can see the frames; it's only at 10 speed

I'm making more soon I made a Kraata that slithers. It's awesome B)

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Nice.

Thanks, Yoshi-animated-man

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Hey, Shadix, here's a little tip:

When you erase the bricks that hold up the cup via the overlapping the layers, make sure you also erase their bricks too. I can the see the shadow "growing" for no apparent reason, which looks pretty weird and unnatural.

Otherwise, it looks pretty good. What kind of FPS do you have?

I've spent HOURS on the shadowing, and that is the best I could come up with. Thanks for the tip though... for the animation I'm planning, shadows shouldn't exist [underwater], so hopefully that isn't a problem.

FPS... I'm not exactly sure, but somewhere around 10 per second. It's a test so it's slower. My real animations are ranging from 15 to 24, 15 for live stopmotion and 24 for my flash animations.

Thanks

-S

When you use Elements, you do have a picture in which the cup and the bricks are not there, correct? And then you put the picture with the bricks and the cup over the original no-cup-no-brick layer and erase, right? Next time, see if you can measure the distance of the shadow by creating a new layer and using the pencil tool at 1px size to trace the length of the cup-shadow. Then, in the ones with the bricks, measure the shadow from the left. Any part of the shadow that exceeds the original pencil length, erase. Load the next picture, then repeat. Make sure, however, that you hide the pencil guideline when you are done.

(I know you're doing an "underwater movie" next, but if you ever do anything on land, it's a good tip )

Do you use MonkeyJam for animation, or just Microsoft GIF Animator?

Ah, that's a good idea. Even though that will make an incredibly time consuming idea even MORE time consuming.

I just use Microsoft GIF animator. It's simple enough.

-S