There's A Mouth on my Desk!

Hi guys! Check this out:



That was "Annotated," a short film I made for an animation class, freshman year. Professor John Edmark let us do crazy stuff--whatever we wanted. It was seriously one of the best classes I've ever taken at Stanford.

Here's the process I used to make it:

Step 1: Record yourself talking

Step 2: Import the footage to Final Cut Pro, and apply the Strobe filter (at like 5 fps).

Step 3: Export the movie as a series of JPEGS

Step 4: Find free printing--A LOT of free printing

Step 5: Use free stop motion animation software to capture footage of the pictures in various places. (You lay the stack down, take a frame, remove a page, take a frame, remove a page, take a frame, etc...)

Step 6: Import the new still frames to Final Cut

Step 7: Make each still frame one tenth of a second long.

Step 8: Add the original soundtrack of yourself talking, and tweak the frames so that they synch up with the audio.

Step 9: Write esoteric messages on the leftover mouth printouts and stick them up in the dorm bathroom--muhahahaha!

Frustratingly, I can't remember what free software I used to make this. But the web is teeming with free stop motion programs--so go see what you can find!


Best,
T. King