(unfinished!) (🎵 - They Might Be Giants - Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes)
with the help of my partner a few years back we were able to achieve a pretty convincing stop motion paper craft effect in blender! here's the fruits of our labor.. i'll share how this was all done later!!
Nov 15, 2024 18:41first off, there's actually a full semi-modeled room surrounding the paper setup, to replicate the real-life lighting setup i used for stop motion a grand total of One Time for a shot in "LADYFLASH" LOL.. the first image is from blender, the last 2 are real! this is to get the light bounces accurate
by using this setup, i could do cool practical effects like putting a translucent sheet replicating water caustics between the lamp and working area! the light from the lamp passes through the sheet and casts this cool little effect across what the camera can see
this is the part i got my partner's help with since i was a lot less familiar with blender's material nodes.. the paper is also translucent so i could move the surface beneath the paper in place of lights that cast through the paper!
you might think the pieces of paper floating atop one another break the illusion, but that's also based on reality! i wanted to give the impression of the paper being shot on a multi-plane, which is something featured in Jonni Peppers' works which are done for real! Jonni's work is on the right!
one last Secret Technique i believe: for some shots, i used blender's "Grease Pencil" feature to animate a segment in 2D, which i'd then essentially trace over with shapes in 3D to have more controlled motion when i wanted it!
