That first note makes so much sense! The sun moves, constantly altering the light source! It's so counter-intuitive when you learn that natural lighting is the best in film and photography.
Cool. :) I remember in one of my videos, I needed a cinema scene, so I took out where the movie screen should've been and stood my DS there. It turned out great. :)
@legofilmproductions hmm, couldn't tell you for sure, but certain colors of lego are more reflective than others, black is especially bad. The only other thing that I could think of is your light may be too harsh and it's causing reflections. Try dimming them with paper.
I don't know for sure, but if I had to guess, I think it would be okay. The only thing you would want to look out for is if the bulb produces a lot of heat.
I have printed off a piece of paper that is 2 inches by 4 inches and in a large font I typed the text 'FOCUS ON THIS TEXT' and I place this next to the minifig, laying it against the front edge nearest the camera. Large back text on a white paper is easy to focus on and you can clearly see when the text is nice and sharp. Good bright lights help focusing too they ensure a sharp clear image. I hope this helps.
haha, I randomly came across this video, not that Ill use these exact techniques for my videos but those are some clever lighting tips! Really interesting.
Hey Fancy Pants, great video. Just a helpful tip, replace the paper with baking paper. It's designed to take extreme heat and is less likely to burn down your house than normal paper when placed near halogen lights. Just a question about camera settings. I use a Nikon D3200, and I recently had to do a night time scene. I put a black piece of paper behind the set, and that sort of made it look night time, but if I adjust the aperture, will that be good enough, or will I have to change the white balance? I want to do this on set because making night time settings in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects looks so fake.
@heroicham Well since it's a video camera, it doesn't have a flash. But if it did, I wouldn't use it. Seems to me that would cause huge flicker issues.
Another good way to get lighting iside the house is make a wall that's not viewable by the watchers and shine a flashlight through at the ngle you think is best. Now, this also may limit how of the house you can view or it may be difficult if it's a labyrrinth type thing, but hey, you can try it if you're overly obsessed with not getting your legos burnt.
lol, I burnt my lego once (more like melted it actually), it wasn't fun. :P Great tutorial, dude. I like the explosion technique, I might wanna try that out sometime. :D
this is just a tip for the night time lighting. You can buy a blue light bulb and just put it in your lamp cause i have some blue lights and it looks really good. like if this helps
if you don't want to burn your legos (cause that would be bad), use fluorescent light bulbs. they don't get as hot as normal ones. oh, and they're environmentally friendly for some reason. so you have that going for you, too.
Holy crap when everyone sees this video they r gonna be like " ommygosh this guys gonna be rich when everyone finds out". I HAD NO IDEA!anyway cool video.very helpful
Where do you get the lego floor? I only have a small green one. you know, the pallete with the lego studs to help the lego stand, walk, etc? THe foundation for the lego house you built?
@Thedeathcircle1 Light Flicker is when the lighting changes every frame of the video. I have examples. You can see that in my stop motion vids. I need to recover from that.
and also right for the gun effect using the flashlight? in one of my films, army test, I basically used flashlight for the bright fire or light when a gun fires, no editing.
What do you mean by picture? Do you pause and unpause the camera? Or do you take picture with your camera and put them together? If You do take pictures with your camera, how do you put your pictures together and make it look like the Lego is moving???? Do you use some Cind uf Picture editor??? If you do, then which one? What kind? How do you get it???? PLEASE ANSWER ME! I'm dying to know!!!!!!!!!!
Great!!! It helps a lot, but one question, I usaully do my films with sunlight because when I do, do it with a lamp it turns out yellow. How would I fix that, besides getting a new bulb?
dear facypants, i wnat to use stopmotion but i am terrible at it and since your the best lego stopmotioner i have seen on youtube i thought you could teach me (start with the basics) plz respond
how do i get my lamps less hot so i can put paper over them? becuase when i'm animating, and move something in the back of the set, i burn my arms on the metal around the lightbulb.
I don't think Lego's burn or melt... If you've seen one of the most recent Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This? videos, they microwaved Lego's. Surprisingly, nothing happened, except the microwave died. LEGO'S ARE INVINCIBLE!!! But good tips!
