I have been inspired yet again! After mindlessly browsing YouTube, I found something of meaning in amongst the countless videos of pointlessness. His name is Patrick Boivin and he is a very talented film maker and animator. So watching his ‘making of’ clips showed me a few of the techniques and made me realise I am missing a few important ingredients for animation.

One of which is a camera mount / track / Toy car.

I needed something the camera can attach to, and that something had to have wheels of some sort. Ended up using a Playmobil car I found in the loft, and a scrap bit of metal (probably from ikea). Couple of screws, some super glue, and ta da, here’s what I made:

Close up of the screw that the camera attatches to

Cool eh, and what else do I need but a Green Screen:

Ok…the green screen did not quite work out the way I had envisioned it, but the camera mount works a treat.

I think I might have to use a green T Shirt, or something fabric to make the colour true…for my printer is shit.

Now maybe I can get down to some serious animation!

I have been let loose with a drill and some screws!

This time I decided to make a stop motion camera rig, out of old shelves. After seeing animations such as Muto on YouTube, I wanted to have a go myself. Well here it is:

The screw that the camera attatches to

Dusty

Now all I need is a whiteboard. Using paper would be ok too but I would need to use alot of paper, 12 pieces per second of footage actually (12fps).

The time has come to mod the 4gb Flash Disk I got given from my college. Its just black, and rectangular and boring. So I decided to combine my favorite past time toy with it….LEGO!

Before:

YAWN

So after using magical pliers that I still have from when I used to ‘play’ Warhammer, and some nail glue (couldn’t find super glue), I had a finished USB Drive!

Does everything a normal USB can…it goes in.

Pretty awesome hey.

PS

I hate super glue (or nail glue…same thing) I ALWAYS get it on my fingers, and it feels like it isn’t my skin.