Tutorial #2 Studio Lighting

A short tutorial with advice on setting up your lighting for your animation studio.

Over the coming months I will be releasing a series of films for absolute beginners to brick filming. As the series progresses I intend to move on to more advanced topics as well.

Several of you have asked where I got my desk lamps, here is the URL
http://www.lighting-direct.co.uk/swing-arm-desk-lamp-with-base-white-p-4714.h...

I great website to visit for more information and informative forums is

http://www.bricksinmotion.com

And if you want to watch my own brick films then visit my other YouTube account Funny Boys Films
http://uk.youtube.com/user/FunnyBoysFilms

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Lego
• Tutorial
• Brickfilms
• Brick
• films
• Animation
• Studio
• Lighting
• Stop
• Motion
• Stopmo
• Films

[TheOtherGuy122]

Where did you get those red lego bottles at 0:27?

[Tutorials4Brickfilms]

@TheOtherGuy122 Sorry for the delay, YouTube had a problem and I was unable to log into this account for several weeks. The Lego Bottles are in fact not Lego but Playmobil. I cheated as there is no Lego item like them at the moment. That is why the scale is out, ie they bottles are very big in comparison to the minifigs lol.

[cheeseyreevies]

hi great tutorial

but i was wondering .. any ideas how to make the set darker like it was night?

[Tutorials4Brickfilms]

@cheeseyreevies I alot of people do this in post production, using colour filters reducing the other colours and boosting the dark blue colour. You can't really do it in a cheap video editing suite. Difficult question to answer. You could go to Bricksinmotion website and ask around on the forums the guys there may well come up with a better answer :-)

[HarrySandals]

Can you help? I have tried Daylight bulbs and they make a really yellow picture and i've seen ones that look bluer than the daylight bulbs but i don't know what they are or where to get them and also whenever i move my minifigure a picture that shows his front side to one that only shows his profile it changes lighting. I don't know what to do and I'm kind of stuck and I'm hoping you can help me get to taking pictures like the one you did as an example in this video.

[Tutorials4Brickfilms]

@HarrySandals Hi, the bulbs should look blue in the box, you want Natural Day Light Bulbs, not Daylight Bulbs. The Natural Daylight Bulbs should be available in most DIY stores.With the minifig movement and lighting, make sure that you have the right bulbs and tracing paper over the lamps as per the video this should give you a nice even lighting. Remember if there are other lights in the room the light that falls onto your set when you move your body will move as you move forward and backward

[MrChale61]

Whens the next one?

[kurby345]

(I don't know how this helps anyone, I just thought it was cool.) My friends computer set is a PERFECT stopmotion studio. It is a big box, with a computer next to it, so you can use webcams and edit right there. There is a cabinet above us, perfect for holding a cardboard piece for a background. And his house light is perfect. He has about 2 lights in the computer box too, so I can change the lights for nighttime!

[Tutorials4Brickfilms]

@SuperLegoguy99 Yes I have made several they are on my other channel FunnyBoysFilms enjoy

[Tutorials4Brickfilms]

@KDWorldBrickPix there were quiet a few and I must admit when I came to edit the film together I forgot who sent what picture so I couldn't match up the studio photo to the contributer. It is basically the main active filmers from the forum Bricksinmotion com