I currently have a few days off from work and thought I would try my hand at stop motion animation. I have all the tools already at my disposal, so it was just a matter of giving it a whirl. I thought I would use the assembly of a simple LEGO helicopter as the first run test.

I didn’t edit any of the photos and didn’t really set up everything properly as I was just giving it a try to see if I could get the concept down. After a couple of hours of photography and computer time, here is what I came up with:

For those interested, I used my Canon 40D with the 24-70 f/2.8L lens. I had it connected to an Alien Bees 1600 (lime green, of course) strobe that was pointed to the ceiling. I shot 1/125 @ f22 using the remote shutter release cable. I dumped the 141 images into iMovie set the length of each still and exported using the built in YouTube share feature… doesn’t get much easier than that.

I know it isn’t very pretty, but I was just after proof of concept here. I am going to plan a larger project to see how it goes. If you have any ideas, let me know!

Cheers!!

Edit: Apparently YouTube cut off the last few frames of the video… sorry!!