There’s who spend their teen-age years, getting drunk and chasing girls, and who make stop-motion animation videos with LEGO, and that’s the basic difference between me and Dylan Woodley, a 17 y.o. guy who decided to use his time making stunning music video: we don’t review unofficial videos basically, but I felt like making an exception for this, you’ll see why.
 
The video portraits the LEGO version of Foster The People performing “Houdini” in a black set with amazing light effects and a use of stopmotion that doesn’t seems like it actually is stop-motion.
In order to discover what there’s behind I discovered that he’s very open about revealing its tricks, so I just feel like quoting what he has to say about the whole process of filming and editing, let’s start with softwares:
 
“Production
-EOS Utility. This is the standard program that comes with Canon DLSRs, and allows for remote capture. I shoot all footage in this program.
-FrameByFrame. This is a Mac program for frame assembly. I use this while animating so I can check how the footage is turning out. It adds a bit of grain to the exported clips however, so I don’t use it for actual assembly, just animation testing.
 
Post-Production
-Adobe After Effects. I use this for almost all compositing and effects work. Colour correction is also done here.
-Adobe Photoshop. After obtaining After Effects, I’ve found it’s easier to do a lot of effects in that program instead of Photoshop (which I used for everything until Pancake Island). I still use Photoshop for masking and other single frame effects, as I find I have better control with some of the tools in PS.
-Final Cut Express. This is what all of the actual editing is done in. Sound effects and clips are assembled in FCE, and then exported as one big file for you to enjoy”
 
Then, hardwares:
 
“Camera
I’ve used a Quickcam Pro 9000 as my camera since Diapers With That?. HALO: The Battle of Block Planet was the last animation to be filmed by that camera. I won 2nd place in the contest I entered it into, which earned me a shiny new Canon T3i. I’ve used the T3i ever since.
 
Lens
I use a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens on the T3i (with an adapter so I can attach a Nikon lens to a Canon body). I also have a Nikkor f/3.5-4.5 28-105mm zoom lens. For close ups I add some Vivitar macro filters into the mix.
 
Computer
A big ol’ 27″ iMac.
 
As for lighting, I have four regular desk lamps and a reflector (simply a piece of white paper on a stand). However I don’t always use every light, different scenes call for different lighting approaches.”
 
Do you need anything else?

Foster The People – Houdini

Artist: Foster The People
Direction:
Dylan Woodley (Insomniac Animations)
Released:
14 September 2012
Techniques:
Stop Motion, 3D Animation, Photography
What's Cool:
Stop-Motion God.
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October 24th, 2012


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