Stop Motion Guitar

This was my final for animation class. It's a stop motion animation of my friend mark playing his guitar. All of the music was recorded on the spot and the pictures were all taken on the same day. It was supposed to be a fully green screen project with cool animated backgrounds but the screen was a bit too big and resuled in a lot of wrinkles which would take too long to edit out manually.

This was all made from STILL pictures. None of it was filmed with a video camera!

This project consisted of:
668 Layers in After Effects
443 photos
5 audio clips
and a hell of a lot of time and work.

It took me 26.5 hours to make altogether!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• stop
• motion
• animation
• guitar
• after
• effects
• green
• screen

[fiecco1994]

Hey, good work dude. Can u tell me the name of the song at the end of the video?

[bednarczyk]

@fiecco1994 Yeah, It's called "When I Grow Up". It's originally by the Pussycat Dolls but this version is a cover by the band Mayday Parade. You can get it on the Punk Goes Pop vol. 2 album.

[fiecco1994]

@bednarczyk Ok, I found it. Tnx so much ;)

[bednarczyk]

@fiecco1994 You're welcome.

[afear23]

well, for my opinion, its just wasting ur time..ur 'stop motion' doesnt look like 'stop motion'.. no sudden movement at all except for the intro (moving while sitting)..anyway, nice try

[bednarczyk]

Well it is. The whole thing was made using still pictures and him moving his hand slowly for each note. In fact, you made me realize how awesome of a job I did getting it to flow so smoothly that someone thought it wasn't stop motion. It wasn't meant to be a jittery video, it was meant to look very smooth as if he were playing live in the video.

[jeffmara]

Good Job!

[TheGuy842]

Very nice! :)

[bednarczyk]

That's pretty good. Well i also included setup for shots, green screen, lighting, and camera in that time and spent a lot of time editing the the photos seperatly to make up for my green screen issues. In the end it wasn't what i had wanted. I was hoping for a cool animated background. What sucks is we only had the equiptment and time for one day to shoot it. If i had known how limited the space was i would have just shot it like you did without green screen. It was too late by that time though.

[TheDetonaTed]

26 hours? damn mine took 10 hours.

Go look at my stop-motion guitar stuff