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!
Woo!!!
We used Adobe Premiere Elements :) Around $120...
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!
This was great. I loved it. Thanks for putting it up here.
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!
Who's or what is SDG?
SDG should write a review :)
Well done, liked it very much!
Justin misspelled it.......
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!
What does contianed mean?
It was cool though.
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.
@Paul H. Yes, TV is 60 fps, but that is interlaced. So it is only 30 fps deinterlaced.
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!
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!
Clever and charming!
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.
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.
That's made of awesome and sweetness.
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