Stop motion light painting

Light painting + stop motion

How: A stop motion video is where man-made frames are put together to look animated,  like a flip book. I wanted the animated "thing" to be light, so in addition, I shot each frame as a long exposure shot of the movements of a flashlight.  I used an intervalometer, a flashlight through a transparent wall of glass (the shower cabin) to play out each game state, pixel by pixel. I used tape to define the pixel grid so I could repeat the last game state and add an incremental pixel without my brain smoking up.

Quick videos

Oftentimes, a short video is the only way you can trick someone to understand the point you are trying to convey. However, videos take both time and talent to produce.

A few months ago, we had a similar problem. I was working with a few folks from The Melton Foundation to popularize a grant that enabled it's fellows to do travel-related projects. We had received feedback that the marketing for this project had been very poor.

So, over the course of half a day, Anirudh and I came up with this stop-motion video - I drew and he shot the frames. It's crude in a lot of ways, but it was so much better than sending copy in a newsletter that people are likely to miss.