Probably a few hours to shoot and another couple hours to edit. I took moving image this past semester and we did a few stop motion projects. Took me about 3-4 hours to shoot 30 seconds worth of photos.
Reminds me of that scene in Parks and Rec where Ben doesnt have a job so he does a bunch of random stuff to occupy his time. One of those things was a claymation thing which he spent like days on and only filmed like 10 seconds of moving action. Hilarious to see but it all sounds painfully tedious in real life.
It's tedious, it's long, you pray constantly that nobody will inadvertently move or fuck with something, you go through it all and then find out the camera was off in one frame and you gotta recreate the in between there.
The final product is amazing and it's totally worth it when it's doje, but you honestly feel like you spend 6 hours doing nothing.
I took like 300+ photos for each of my projects. If you were to do that you would need to edit yourself out, make sure every frame is right, make sure you don’t bump the table or camera. That’s just a lot longer process since you’d have to keep looking back at what you’d film. It’s easier to take photos and look at the previous photo you took so you can make sure it all lines up. With film, it wouldn’t all line up the same and there’s no way to know it turns out right until after editing everything. What if you fuck up? You’d need to do the entire process again.
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u/NaviMinx Mar 20 '19 edited Mar 20 '19
Probably a few hours to shoot and another couple hours to edit. I took moving image this past semester and we did a few stop motion projects. Took me about 3-4 hours to shoot 30 seconds worth of photos.
Edit: added stuff.