Stop Motion Animation of Falling

Falling stop Motion Animation

PLANNING

I started with planning an idea of what to have bounce. So I chose having myself do something I physically could not. I wanted to jump down from a high place. I used the highway over pass next to my house for my back ground. I went into Flash and roughly animated a character jumping from the bridge. This way I was able to plan out the posses and the timing for my shot. After I exported the animation into a quicktime file I took pictures of myself in thoughts posses. This was done at the same time I took the picture of the background and in the same angle to the light outside so that I would later be able to put my self on the background image and not look strange. I then erased myself from each frame to where the image was just me. When I had all my images ready I placed them in Flash and matched up my planning to the actual pictures. I added a little extra squash, stretch, and motion blur to the images to make the animation look more convincing. I also painted a cast shadow and added a camera shake or two to make the scene more entertaining.

Hope you enjoy,

Nick