Stopmotion Day 5

We had a great week!
Today we did final visual editing, recorded lots of little background sounds, edited in those background sounds, and signed off on the final edit.
Our film Potty Mouth can be found here.
There are also silly bloopers that we made over the week here.
We had a pizza party, and then ate ice cream sundaes.
Thank you all for a great class.
See you all next summer.
Mr. Doyle

Stopmotion Day 4

We had our heads down and just produced and produced today.
Tomorrow we will be finishing our shots, doing the final visual edit, and finally the sound edit.
Remember you don't need to pack lunches tomorrow.
I will get pizzas and we will have sundaes at the end of the day.
I will also post the link to the final film tomorrow.
The group is very strong.

Stopmotion Day 3

We had a productive day of animation.
This is what we have been doing so far:
1. We threw out ideas as a group and came up with options.
2. After deciding on a basic story, we wrote a script and casted actors.
3. Then we shot video of the actors saying their lines.  We did this three times because our first test was only sound and that didn't allow us to see mouth movements and the first video didn't sound right not being recorded in the right space. (that's why we do tests)
4. We edited the whole film with the live action acting parts and the parts we knew we wanted to animate all together.
5. Then we exported just the parts assigned to each object, i.e. the compact, the lip gloss, the hair iron, etc.
6. Since each actor had their own group of scenes all put together, we then put these video files into the animation software.
7. On to the bathroom space.  We hooked the camera up to the computer, got the lights set up, and animated our dialog person by person, while watching our mouths from our original video.  (pretty cool)
8. We then exported each finished group one at a time and added them to our film.  (once again thank you for tests, the export process took a while)
9. Thursday and Friday we will be finishing animation furiously and adding sound effects and background sounds.
We are having a great time.

Stopmotion Day 2

We had a great day.  Did another test animation.  The link is here.  We finished our script, filmed all of our scenes for its audio, and shot the non animation scenes.  We also did some serious make up for the actor.

Stopmotion Day 1

We had a good day today.  We have the spark of an idea for the big project.  We watched lots of different short stopmotion films.  We did some test recordings and made a short stopmotion test.  You can see that here.  It is silly but the flow of stopmotion is becoming clear.

Stopmotion Camp Starts Tomorrow!

Everything on schedule over here.
My address is 9257 Biscayne Blvd., Dallas, 75218
home 214-327-7636
cell 214-516-3571
See you all at 9am, pickup at 3pm.
Bring a sack lunch.
I will have tea and lemonade ready.
Excitement is high!

Film Day 5

We had a great week.
Thank you all very much.

links to bloopers:

Gene Bloopers - play

The Spark Bloopers - play

K K Soul Sister - play

Portal-Potty - play

Nature... - play

Film Day 4

We had another very productive day today.
Here are links to the three main films.
Gene - play
Click Clique - play
and The Spark - play
Friday - remember no need to bring a lunch, we will have pizza.
It has been a great week!

Film Day 3

We had another great day today.  A lot of production.  Finished production on Gene.  Most of the editing done on Gene and Spark.  Had a great day shooting Clique.  Tomorrow we will finish production on Clique, finish editing and hopefully get Gene and Spark online, and begin one more short short film.  If you haven't gotten the class fee in you can bring it this week or mail it to our home.  We are having a great time and learning a lot.

Film Camp Day 2

Everyone should sleep well tonight.  A lot of production today out in the heat.
More of the same tomorrow.  Excitement is high.

We finished production on the short Fire, planning on finishing production of Gene tomorrow, and start on Click Clique tomorrow as well.

Film Camp Day 1

We had a great day today.  We came up with three interesting stories we are developing for the week.  We went on trips down to the lake to look at locations.  We left with lists of props and costumes that we need for the week.  We start producing tomorrow.  Everyone was respectful and productive.  It was a great day.  See you all at 9am on Tuesday.  I will post updates and images every day this week.

Film Starts Tomorrow!

Everything on schedule over here.
My address is 9257 Biscayne Blvd., Dallas, 75218
home 214-327-7636
cell 214-516-3571
See you all at 9am, pickup at 3pm.
Bring a sack lunch.
I will have tea and lemonade ready.
Bring ideas, props, costumes, etc.

2 Days!

Film camp is almost here.  The light has been beautiful the last few days.  The lake is looking great.  Students make sure that you are checking you email.  Everyone should be thinking about ideas.  If you have some kind of props or costumes bring them on Monday.  Who knows what story we will make from them.  There is a chance of rain this week.  First, I will believe it when I see it.  Second, we've had rain before and still made very cool films.  Weather doesn't hinder us a bit.  Wear appropriate clothing for the weather though.  See you all at 9am on Monday.

4 Days Until Film Camp Starts

Make sure that you are thinking about ideas, costumes, stories, objects, and anything that might get us going.  Go ahead and bring them on Monday.  Bring or wear sunscreen.  We won't be out much on Monday but it's good to have.  Bring a sack lunch.  Prepare for a great time.

Filmaking camp 6 days away!

I hope everyone is doing well with the beginning of summer break.
I am very excited about these classes.
We meet at my home - 9257 Biscayne Blvd., Dallas, 75218
We live on the east side of White Rock Lake.
If you know where the Bath House Art Center is, then we are walking distance from that.
The route we take from school is tollway south, Northwest Highway east, south(right) on Buckner Blvd., Right on Biscayne Blvd.  We are on the right.
It usually takes us 25 minutes from school if traffic is light.
The Film camp is June 11th-15th.
The Stopmotion camp is June 18th-22nd.
Each camp is $500.  You can bring that the week of the camp.
We start at 9am each day and end at 3pm.
Please be on time for both sides of the class.
We start right away and end at three so I can get supplies for the next class.
I have sent you all everyone's email so you can maybe talk to each other about carpooling.
Please contact me with any questions you may have.
My cell number is 2145163571.
Our home number is 2143277636.
I will be posting more infomation this week so keep looking at the blog.
If you want to get a picture of the class you can scroll or navigate back to past years and see what we did.
There are still a couple spots in the Stopmotion class.