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The behind the scenes video shows details of the process. I found it fascinating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIH4MJAC2Tg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIH4
by invisiblefunnel 15y ago
The behind the scenes video shows details of the process. I found it fascinating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIH4MJAC2Tg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIH4MJAC2Tg
- rorrr 15y agoI can think of many ways how to make this whole process much much easier. The amount of unnecessary work they did is just insane.
- folkster 15y agoAgree. But that's what Art is about...
- tlrobinson 15y agoWasting time?
- gaustin 15y agoBeing authentic.
- JonnieCache 15y agoYes, in a sense. I am reminded of oscar wilde: "All art is useless." This is one of the only useful definitions of "art," which is otherwise a concept very tricky to pin down, it is that which serves no purpose other than to delight.
- jklp 15y agoReal artists ship :p
- flixic 15y agoCould you explain? Do you suggest using some kind of CG or greenscreen, or what?
- mbreese 15y agoWell, one thing they could have done that wouldn't have changed their stop-motion commitment would have been to use more than a frames worth of jelly beans. Instead they could have made one long movable landscape. Then they could have adjusted the "viewport" by moving the camera or the landscape. As it is, it looks like they moved each "pixel" for each frame.
- prolepunk 15y agoI think that behind the scenes video doesn't give that information. Although they did shot last frame last, they didn't say that they shot them in order. Also they only shot 2300 whereas the clip at 24 fps would have taken 4920 though the 'real' frame seems to be lower. Finally moving around jelly beans is a lot easier than setting up the scene from scratch, as mentioned, a frame took 5 minutes to 3 hours to setup. tl dr: I would like to see more technical behind-the-sceens.
- scott_s 15y agothey didn't say that they shot them in order. She implied it when she said that after every day, they could see the progression up until that point.
- bch 15y agoThey _could_ have inserted out-of-order frames as they were completed, and she could have been commenting on witnessing the video moving from flat vector gfx to jelly bean gfx.
- scott_s 15y agoThey could have, but I have a feeling they didn't. There's also the fact that in the last frame they shot, she's wearing the space suit that is, in fact, what she's wearing at the end of the video.
- ghshephard 15y agoIt's rare that I indulge myself in making a pithy remark on HN, but this is one of those rare times I will, karma be damned. You're missing the point.
- hessenwolf 15y agoI agree wholeheartedly with his point. If the populus of HN in general isn't into shamelessly improving productivity in everything, then I am suprised. Aren't we all busy people? (I watched the first 20 seconds of the clip and realised I only cared because the chick was hot, and the jelly beans could have been cgi for all I care)
- dandrews 15y agoI am reminded why there are so few women in IT.
- hessenwolf 15y agoValid point. I should have at least phrased it as 'the girl was pretty'. I was a bit yobbo.
- jrockway 15y agoOh right, guys in other fields don't like women.
- spodek 15y agoWhen in the making-of video they call it a labor of love, they meant it. When you do something you love, streamlining the process -- removing stuff you love from your life -- is counterproductive. Consider that people climb mountains they could hire helicopters to get to the top of. They train for months to run marathons they could drive in a car in under an hour. They change their children's diapers they could hire a nanny to do.
- manojlds 15y agoThey do show her in front of a green screen in the behind the scenes video....so technically, they did use the tech, but not for the actual video, of course. But great effort.