Alex’s Ghost Stop-Motion

Alex wanted to do something with ghosts and since parts of him disappear when doing the green screen stuff, things just morphed over to this.  We took 5-10 minutes to build the script, recorded it twice and then did the video. From inception to completion this took just under 2 hours. This is quite different [...]

Latest Stop-Motion Video

Alex and I spent an hour or so making our latest stop-motion video.  This one seems more like the right length – not too long (those take forever to make) and not to short (something long enough to make some statement).  Obviously we haven’t put much effort into the voices at this point but we [...]

Weekend Stop-Motion Work

I haven’t written anything for a bit so let’s play catch-up first.  I’ve done a bit over 2500 miles on my bike this year but the past month has been slow.  I sliced my hand working on my boat and couldn’t ride until it healed, a couple weeks.  The first ride after that my knees [...]

Alex’s Second Stop Motion Movie

Here’s Alex’s second movie using iStopMotion. At the beginning, the clone trooper you see walking at the back from right to left and then forward was done by me, everything else was done by Alex. He’s still enthralled with the new tool and not paying much attention to me on lessons yet so I put [...]

Alex’s First Stop-Motion Video

My son Alex, who is 7, has had a director / movie maker mentality since he first started interacting with other kids. He’d be telling them, “you do it this way, then I’ll come over here and then you do this” , etc. It’s been interesting to watch. So when Clayton turned me on to [...]

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