The gardener's nap
Also made with Stop Motion Studio on a iPad. This time using the green screen feature. I used a large piece of medium grey pastel paper for the green screen, and I masked out bits of the veggies with grey kneadable eraser. The effect is pretty crude, but it would have been a bit better if with fewer cast shadows. There are a couple of grey bits in the skin where a lumps in the eraser cast shadows.I tried using the compiled frames as background frames and putting another layer of green-screened objects on top, but the compiled background image degrades a lot. So you have to plan everything out from the start.
I'm using a desktop vice to hold my tablet in place, it's not bad.
An actual tripod mount might be better. I had to hold the tablet to shoot the gardener, and there's too much movement between shots.
Some limitations in Stop Motion Studio:
- The credit screen sucks, I don't think you can edit out the text from the Outline tab. So instead, I made a card in iDraw and put it in the Camera Roll.
- It would aslo be nice to be able to fade in after the title screen and fade out before the credit screen.
I will either have to move my videos to YouTube or choose another blogging platform, the viewer on Blogger is too small, and full screen is not very nice resolution. In the meantime, here's the link to The Gardener's Nap on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/77242924