Dragon Tree Time-Lapse

Roughly 4 months of growth at 1 frame per day. I don't know why the sprout on the left decided to give up. Perhaps its two neighbours got the upper hand and starved it of resources?

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  Film & Animation

[cybercab]

That is fantastic. Can you tell me what camera and software you use?

[superbligh]

Cheers cybercab. The camera is nothing special: a Konica-Minolta Dimage A2. I shot all the frames manually, then re-registered them all by hand in Photoshop so that they lined up properly. Then I imported them all into Windows Movie Maker, gave them 0.1 second each and added a soundtrack. There are probably much better ways to do it than this. :-)

[wgjpinoy654]

Wow, this is awesome, i got one dragon tree of my own but died from winter frost, but i still kept it...hoping it'll regrow after all these days of caring for a "dead" plant :(

[superbligh]

Thanks wqipinoy. This one actually got badly scorched from being out in the sun too long, so I pruned it and got to film it coming back to life. :-)

[BirdValiant]

You should do another one, except even longer. Maybe you're in the process right now...

[superbligh]

I agree it's a bit short, but nothing much else was going to happen within the frame of the shot. Maybe I'll try something else, like a sky scene, which doesn't take so long to record.

[muhamat aliyev]

how long was that

[XXNANOXX1106]

wikipedia :3

[GmailJMS]

0:01 to 0:11, kinda reminds me of puberty.

[John Webber]

this is like my acne

[ChicaTheLadybug]

Wow!

[ser endip]

very nice

[ThunderGoats]

awesome video.. i have a quetion though.. i have a plant like this but it isnt duble headed.. its just one really skinny tall one... i have had it for 6 or 7 years and it hasnt really changed much.. how would i get this plant to be as thick as yours? and to grow a new one, do i just cut the top off and stick it in water?

[Sheila Pastor]

Philip Glass - Metamorphosis 4 or 5

[joscompy]

what's the song in this video?