Happy Halloween! This was my first time doing an animation outside with lighting that changed as I went. There are some things I would do differently but I'm not unhappy with the results. More details on how I did it are below:
I shot with this with my new Nikon D5100 that I got about month ago. We were camping on the Oregon coast and I figured this would make for a great project to do while the sun went down. The shoot took roughly an hour and is composed of around 250 separate photos. Because the sun was going down, we (my girlfriend Lauren and I) couldn't go back and reshoot anything. So there are lots of things I would like to do differently if I were to do it again. As far as post production, this is the first time that I actually took stills instead of just going through and pulling freeze frames from footage. I finally figured out that by importing everything into iPhoto I could easily set all the pictures in order and touch them up as needed. After that I loaded the photos into iMovie and laid them all out in the timeline at a 10th a second a piece and saved the movie as a QT file. THEN I loaded that QT file into Avid where I did my precision editing and added music. The music is from the Sorcerer and the Apprentice. Enjoy!
