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A week ago I got my new Canon 5D and I was so excited, I started taking random pictures of my hand, just to get the feel of pointing and shooting.
I was about to trash them all, but when scrolling rapidly through the images on my camera’s viewfinder, I thought they made a cool little stop motion movie.
The next day, I borrowed a tripod from Mary’s Dad. I also borrowed some of Mary’s ‘Day of the Dead’ figurines. I shot some pictures of them on the bathroom sink.
I pulled the pictures into Final Cut, and edited them to music.
The song was one I wrote and recorded a long time ago on an old Tascam 4 Track cassette recorder.
I put this together pretty quickly as an experiment, but I think it came out pretty cool.
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That was really captivating to watch Jonas. Keep it up, I am having a lot of fun checking your site everyday. Thanks for the great art.
Much love.
Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Wow. Someone REALLY needs a pedicure.
Just kidding! I thought you did a great job as well. How long did it take you to film the Day of the Dead figurine section? It was seamless!
Wowza! I dig it man. Nice work.
I’m a big fan of this video Jonas. Good job. Seems like it took you a long time to actually make this one! Kinda got the feel that I was watching a tool music video as the skeleton came crawling out of the sink! Good job!
Hey, Jonas! Waaay cool! You’ve discovered stop-motion, excellent!
I got started working in movies, doing stop-motion, using paint and modeling clay. (hint) Love your idea, your puppets are great, and your execution of it all is splendid. Keep up the good work!
Sam
Yay! Yay! Yay! Who knew photos of a hand could turn out so cool? But I like to think you were doing magic to bring the Dia de los Muertos kids back to life. I love those guys! You did a great job with them. I dig the song too! I want more!
It looks like a Halloween Masturbation video done by Tool, it was really cool though
God Bless I cannot wait for the washing hands Thanksgiving special
Or the washing hand Easter egg hunt
Me like!
Greg B.
Awesome video Jonus, I liked how the hand frames seemed more or less in the same spot but the background flipped a lot. It was a bit rough for that, with the sudden changes, but it gave a good mood. A stop action jerky mood. I kind of think the jerkyness of objects is what I find appealing about stop action films. The models were absolutely awesome animations, especially the big skeleton and the girl skeleton. Hopefully Kim will tell me when you have more, but I’ll also try to stop by here to find more awesome work!
Steve H.
That’s really neat! I want a Nikon D80 really bad. But it costs too much right now
boo hoo!
Your video is really cool though! That little skeleton dude kicks ass! Keep up the unusual videos, they are quite entertaining!
I loved the cool effect of the quick movements of your hands through the whole video. It was great!! I knew you had such talent, I can’t wait to see more of your work and how it will blossom like how a cocoon turns into a butterfly…Awww wittle Jonas all grown up!! tee hee.
Kimmie
Very well done for using a new toy! Plus I liked the music, hope you get your orb-shot, outdoors is usually a great spot for catching them.
Thank you so much for your kind responses!
Jonas
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