The amount of raw talent seeping from this video, I swear... You talk about all these techniques and showing how you do it like it's nothing. Stop motion animation is an INCREDIBLY PAINSTAKING TIME CONSUMING PROCESS, and you enjoy it! Like, what?! You make these awesome, amazing animations, with LEGO! You deserve every subscriber you have, and even more. Great job with your entire career on RU-vid, Zach. You are the best stop motion animator I have seen.
Yes, please! Always love BTS stuff, especially for smaller projects. Really reminds you of how much work goes into stuff that doesn't even seem very complicated on the surface!
Was explaining about shooting at 4k and adding digital camera moves to a friend the other day you explained it way better than I did. Loved the video would be great to see more of this type of content in the future!
That short animation was rad. Got those movements just right! The tutorial was actually very enjoyable to follow through with, and I genuinely laughed at the camera bumping bit. Did not expect all the work on the shadows and vignette; I would've never known if I just watched the clip by itself. Great video/editing work. Seeing all the work you put into this made me miss animating
Man I love you mindgame. It’s so good to see another amazing video of yours. I saw this awesome animation on your instagram. You are such a big inspiration to many! Keep it up!
After watching this video, I tried to pay more attention to the shadow and still can’t tell that you had to recreate it using a mask! Sometimes when I’m masking out a support the coloring is different because of the lack of shadows, so I’m curious. Did you guess what the shadow of the minifigure would look like to recreate it, or did you use some references to create it? I don’t see many animators cover this aspect of masking and would be curious to hear more tips about the process. Thanks
Ooh, this might be a good topic for another video! But in essence, it's very small pieces of armature wire held in with clay in both the torso as well as the ball socket on the arm itself.
Make sure that all of your camera's automatic settings like Exposure, White Balance, Focus, etc. are set to *manual* instead of automatic. Also, avoid wearing bright, potentially reflective clothes while animating and be sure not to bump your lights.
