My colleague at Catholic Answers Jim Blackburn was telling me about a stop-motion video made by his son Justin, with help from his brother James. The two boys appear in the film, which stars their cousin, Jackie Jo and also features her sister, Jamie Sue. (Notice anything about the letter J in this family?)
Here's the video. Enjoy!
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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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19 thoughts on “Magic Carpet Ride”
That’s made of awesome and sweetness.
Very cool. I can’t imagine how long it must have taken to get all of those pictures, and then put it all together. 🙂 But they should correct the spelling of the word “contained” at the end of the video.
Also, I’m surprised that there were as many as 808 pictures. For a one-minute video, that’s more than 13/frames per second. If I’m not mistaken, movies are 24 frames/sec and analog TV (NTSC) is 60 frames/sec. Their frame/sec rate compares pretty favorably, considering that it’s amateur stop-motion, and that they probably weren’t trying to make it look entirely smooth.
Clever and charming!
That was fun, we had a good time making this video and had no idea there would be a blog about it. Thanks for posting this Mr. Akin!
Lots of fun! I experimented with Super-8 movie-making when I was a kid, and now in the digital video age I’ve always wanted to try something like this. The magic carpet motif is a great hook, and strikingly used in the opening shot especially — very creative!
@Paul H. Yes, TV is 60 fps, but that is interlaced. So it is only 30 fps deinterlaced.
Awesome. And you could tell they were having fun making it. So very creative! I love stuff like this. It’s what’s best about the internet. We need more cool videos like this.
What does contianed mean?
It was cool though.
I know “contained” is misspelled. But after finishing up making the file, it’s pretty hard to go back in and change it. So please, no more comments about spelling errors. 🙂 Thanks and God bless!
Justin misspelled it…….
Well done, liked it very much!
SDG should write a review 🙂
Who’s or what is SDG?
OK, that was a blast.
I appreciate that they indicate how many stills were taken.
I love the little correction about the spelling too … made it all the more charming!
Good job, you guys!
This was great. I loved it. Thanks for putting it up here.
My children and I loved that. My son, age 11 and our family’s electronics afficionado, immediately commented that his animation software (Digicell Flipbook, beginner version because I wouldn’t pay thousands of dollars for the professional version) would not let him make stop motion movies with that many pictures. He wondered what software they used. Anyway, thanks for the smile!
That’s made of awesome and sweetness.
Very cool. I can’t imagine how long it must have taken to get all of those pictures, and then put it all together. 🙂 But they should correct the spelling of the word “contained” at the end of the video.
Also, I’m surprised that there were as many as 808 pictures. For a one-minute video, that’s more than 13/frames per second. If I’m not mistaken, movies are 24 frames/sec and analog TV (NTSC) is 60 frames/sec. Their frame/sec rate compares pretty favorably, considering that it’s amateur stop-motion, and that they probably weren’t trying to make it look entirely smooth.
Clever and charming!
That was fun, we had a good time making this video and had no idea there would be a blog about it. Thanks for posting this Mr. Akin!
Lots of fun! I experimented with Super-8 movie-making when I was a kid, and now in the digital video age I’ve always wanted to try something like this. The magic carpet motif is a great hook, and strikingly used in the opening shot especially — very creative!
@Paul H. Yes, TV is 60 fps, but that is interlaced. So it is only 30 fps deinterlaced.
Awesome. And you could tell they were having fun making it. So very creative! I love stuff like this. It’s what’s best about the internet. We need more cool videos like this.
What does contianed mean?
It was cool though.
I know “contained” is misspelled. But after finishing up making the file, it’s pretty hard to go back in and change it. So please, no more comments about spelling errors. 🙂 Thanks and God bless!
Justin misspelled it…….
Well done, liked it very much!
SDG should write a review 🙂
Who’s or what is SDG?
OK, that was a blast.
I appreciate that they indicate how many stills were taken.
I love the little correction about the spelling too … made it all the more charming!
Good job, you guys!
This was great. I loved it. Thanks for putting it up here.
My children and I loved that. My son, age 11 and our family’s electronics afficionado, immediately commented that his animation software (Digicell Flipbook, beginner version because I wouldn’t pay thousands of dollars for the professional version) would not let him make stop motion movies with that many pictures. He wondered what software they used. Anyway, thanks for the smile!
We used Adobe Premiere Elements 🙂 Around $120…
Woo!!!