First attempt at a stop motion animation with my Sony Handycam. Basically, it's a smaller can being bullied by a larger can, and the smaller can crushing the larger can with a Darth Vader type force choke.



and get a better quality version here:

big version (2.3 megs):
http://herbert.astahost.com/vids/ca.wmv

Hopefully I will make something more advanced now that I've learned how to use the camcorder a bit better

This is pretty good! Have you considered using clay for your future stop-motion animation? A lot of people do this kind of clay-mation.

I was going to post a video of some stop animation I did a while back but for some reason after I upload the vid and try to play it it gets the error in WMP. When I play it off the hard drive it works fine. Does anyone know what the problem is?

Herbert, that funny. Nice job on the can choking... Are you sure you're not a trashman like me???

I like your website and the recreation of the old style silent movies. Good job.

Nils

Ha. That's great man. You should check out knoxskorner.com/ if you're not already familiar with it.

Hey everyone, I appreciate all the positive feedback. Yes I've been to knoxskorner.com. It has some very funny stuff
I've just started out in stop motion (mostly because this is the first camera that I've had that could do it), and I'm very interested in trying some cool stuff out. I'll have to see what I can do I haven't tried clay yet. I was thinking more along the lines of using action figures...
I can't find the one that inspired me... It had two Crash Test Dummies. One was putting a floppy disk into a drive and it flew out and cut his head off, and the second ran off yelling... It was someone's sig in one of the forums I go on... Was it someone in here?

But if you people really want to see some impressive stop-motion animation, I recommend Charley Bowers. He was a silent comedian and cartoonist. His effects are incredible. I've included a clip of Model T's hatching out of eggs:

http://herbert.astahost.com/vids/bowers1.wmv
Rightclick -> save as

Haha, that's a funny clip. The litlle Model Ts are sleeping under the big one!

That was really good work out there Herbert - and the old b&w theme makes the whole thing stand out quite well.. Keep it up - and hope to see more such great work from you..
All the best

Great Stuff!!!!

How many frames per second r u using????

I onced tried out that kind of animation, but it was a long time ago (back in 1996) i was 12 yeras old then, and i haven't had the money to get another cam (a newer one... ) but i'ld love to now waht new technologies are able to do now days..

I found this artifact on my harddrive this thing is ancient. This is my friend and we made it with some camera called Digital Movie Creator from Intel Play, its pretty cool for only 30 bucks.
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