Tree Stencil Cutting and Spray Time Lapse - Draft

This is a timelapse shot over several months totalling about 10 hours cutting and then spraying a stencil.

It still needs some tweaks to editing and motion, but it takes an extremely long time to render, and there are loads of other projects in the way, so I'd prefer to share it incomplete and warty rather than never showing it because it's not "perfect".

Tech:
Shot with a Pentax *ist DS Digital SLR. The frames were taken as quickly as the camera could record to SD card - about 1 frame every 1.7 seconds.

The camera was immobile on a tripod, the pan and scan (or "Ken Burns Effect" if you want to be all photo nerd) was added later in After Effects. I shot medium-resolution images, which gave me 1500x1000ish pixels, allowing quite a bit of resizing and moving around the frame.

The faster, motion-blurred action as the video progresses is also post-production, created by speeding up the clips and blending multiple frames together.

Cast:
Jaymis: Fast and Loose Stencil Cutting, Photography, Direction, Post-production.
Rachgirl: Slow and Meticulous Stencil Cutting, Motivation.
Irwin the Python: Distraction, Comic Relief.
(For reptile-heads: he's a Centralian Carpet Python - Morelia Bredli - more photos of him can be found here: http://flickr.com/photos/jaymis/tags/irwin/)

Music: Spook - Glorious.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• stencil
• cutting
• timelapse
• time
• lapse
• art
• painting
• spraypainting
• graffiti
• graf
• createdigitalmotion
• jaymis

[mangahead1]

Man, did I just lose my mind or at one point did I see a snake sliding down the side of your face?? :| :|

[Jaymis]

A python actually. Yes.

[johnyo99]

love your work....

what sort of glue do you use when spraying, i'm using repositionable spray adhesive and it's not sticking so well to the canvas... any tips?

[Jaymis]

Just spray adhesive. I used quite a lot for this piece, and let it dry well before sticking it to the canvas. If you let spray adhesive dry for a couple of minutes it's much better at the whole "repositionable sticking" thing.

As you can see on the video though, I had a helper who was doing lots of holding-down, and there was plenty of (desired) underspray on the piece.

[Anonneemoose]

Where do you get your stencils?

Or do you make them?

Because that's fucking amazing.

[Jaymis]

We make them. That one is a photo we took, printed out onto 12 sheets of A4 paper, and then stencilified.

[chadapillar1984]

pretty damn amazing if you ask me. well done.

[freeangel42003]

nice!! btw... what brand of spray adhesive did you use?

[Antkoff]

neat:))

[Ape655321]

damn looks tedious, but its awesome

[heinixxx]

looks great! thx for sharing!

[paint8275]

thats really good i barely started doing stencils hahah it must have tooken hella long to make this

[TheGermacide]

it turned out so beautiful

[antnybeard]

really good man, was expecting with all that finer detail for the outcome to be a bit ropey but not at all.

[iluvvzefron]

a lot of stenciling... O__o

[ReadyPrepper]

Printing stencils this big is simple, but cutting them is hard. First, download Inkscape for free. Find or make an image and vector it (Trace Bitmap) and save it. Then download PosteRazor...again for free and make it as big as you want it without distortions (Inkscape is crucial). Your basic printer will print your new image in the size you chose. Piece the image together and cut it out.