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Lazy River Camera Mount

Ok, at first this may not seem like it has much to do with animation but here are some sketches I made for a little lazy river time-lapse camera mount. My brother and I are pretty avid tinkerers and ever since I gave him an HDhero cam for his birthday we keep playing around with different camera mount ideas. He’s made a pretty decent surfing head mount system but I can’t shake the idea of building some sort of floating stand to follow us on our inevitable drunken float down the russian river later in the summer. We usually travel with an armada of friends and I just love the idea of documenting the trip as an epic time-lapse pixilation film.

My brother, mr. obvious, was quick to point out that we could do the same thing by just strapping a tripod to an inner tube. Yes, yes these are overly complex and unstable but they kind of have a suessian vibe that I like. Anyways, thought I would share. If the trip happens I will be sure to post the film.

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Monster pen test

Monster
The scribble drawing from the time lapse project.

Some folks wanted to see a close up of the drawing I made in the Root – Timelapse post.

Well here he is all his fifty-dried-out-old-pen wackyness. Yeah, he was the bi-product of me sorting through several buckets worth of pens, testing for the ones which were still good.

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Root- Time lapse

This is a time lape of me organizing some of the mess which is my home office.

I added a few bits of animation here and there just to make it interesting. The roots are a maya paint effects setup. For some reason it took way longer than I thought to render. Oh well, time flies when your having fun.

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Oh, I should add that the time lapse was shot on a Nikon D700 using an AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm lens. The camera was set to shoot one frame every 20 seconds and it was all compress at 24fps. I composited the shot using TVPaint animation software.