Monday, May 4, 2009

Research/Final

So, I got to thinking about this class. i think it's meant to be a place to mess around in a sanctioned way, and to pursue things that interest the student. So I looked at the things I've always wanted to try, but never really made time to learn how to do it, and I came up with stop motion. I love Robot Chicken, and I've always wanted to really try it. I've messed around with it a bit, but had never really tried to put anything together for real.

I looked online, and found that a new piece of software had emerged, Dragon. It's a stop motion program. It's really designed to be used with DSLRs, but it will work with DV cameras. I spent some research time reading over the manual and trying a few 2-3 second things, just to get the hang of the interface. I then put together this 30 second little beauty. not awesome, but not bad. I liked the story, such as it is.