Still Thinking About You

by | Feb 14, 2012 | Animation

A very short, very lo-fi animation I made last night for Valentine’s Day, 2012. Music made in Garageband on my 2-octave Ion midi keyboard (it’s easier to figure out than the full sized one..) and stop motion captured with iStopMotion. Plus, one dead firewire cable which forced me to reroute through USB accounting for some image quality loss, and a strange software upgrade which caused iStopMotion to stop working.. Luckily I still had my old installer.. And here it is. Happy Valentine’s Day.

Valentine’s Day is coming up..

by | Feb 9, 2012 | Animation

Here’s a little something I whipped up last year in just a few hours. I’ve posted it before, but I thought I’d post it again. I didn’t get time to get into the animation stuff for my exhibit in Colorado, so I’m hoping I’ll be able to make some time pretty soon to do more.. The Topeka exhibit this summer wants to continuously play my animations during it’s duration.. so that means I need to have some to play..

Holy Sun

by | May 27, 2011 | Animation

I took a picture of the sun on my iPhone this afternoon and the sun glare looked like a blooming flower… So, in lieu of doing productive things, I, instead, photoshopped the heck out of my sun photo and made a little animation. If you liked lava lamps back in your teenage years, like myself, then you might like this.

Update: Here’s the edited version with sound from youtube. I have way too much fun with these things…

Animation: When Love Is Real

by | Feb 15, 2011 | Animation

A stop-motion cut-paper Valentine’s Day Greeting.

Birdie Puppets
These are the birdie shadow puppets I made and used for this short animation. I used thin black wire to connect the joints where I wanted the puppet to be able to move.

Animation: Think Bright Thoughts

by | Feb 1, 2011 | Animation

Here’s a little something I threw together last night. This is a stop-motion silhouette animation shot at 12 frames per second. That means, for every second of video, I took 12 still pictures… Stop-motion animation is basically a long sequence of still images viewed together in quick succession to make it appear that things are in motion. For every picture taken, you move the objects just a tiny bit.

Again, there shall be more to come. Check out my other animations here: https://ruralpearl.com/blog/?page_id=454

Regarding New York – Stop Motion Animation

by | Jan 23, 2011 | Animation

This is a quick little stop-motion animation (that doesn’t make much sense) that I made using my lightbox that I bought.. last year.. to make animations.. It’s been a few years (7, cough, cough) since I touched anything of the sort. It feels good to be doing something with it. Animation is, afterall, the way I got into cut paper art. There shall certainly be more to come. Check out my other animation, Turtle’s Escape, here: https://ruralpearl.com/blog/?page_id=454