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JP's Animation Page
POVRay
I first started playing around with computer animation using POVRay to rotate objects like my liberator model
here. I ray-traced each of the images using
POVRay's animation options and then used ADPro's frame editor FRED to sequence the frames.
All of the GIF animations on this page were created using FRED to create a sequence of GIFs and then WhirlGif to combine the images into a GIF animation.
Stop Motion
One Sunday afternoon, having nothing better to do, Trev and I decided to try our hand at stop motion animation.
We had a Kodak DC260 digital camera hooked up to a PC. Having no tripod we ended up balancing the camera in a cardboard box hanging over
the edge of a table. In this first effort, we used some Yowie bugs and a matchbox. Despite
the changing reflections it didn't turn out too bad. This animation contains just 54 frames.
Lego Epic
In this much grander effort our set included a bunch of rocks and some Lego figures. We were much
more prepared and even had a tripod this time. This animation took five of us an afternoon and evening to shoot and contained 174 frames
of raw data. With special effects added this grew to 433 frames. The effects were mostly done on my Amiga using
Photogenics and ended up taking a couple of months to complete. These special effects included
beaming in and out and laser fire. Once again the sequencing was done using FRED. We intended doing sound efects as well and even started
on some of them but at this stage (2 years after initial shooting) we still have no sound added.
The Lego animation is far too large to include here, but I have shown a few frames below.
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Uluru Sunset
This final animation was made from a set of stereoscopic photographs taken of Uluru (Ayers Rock) at sunset
during our 1999 trip.
