CBeebies asked David McCue and I to come up with an animating advent calendar. We decided to create a present unwrapping itself using stop-motion.
After doing some test animations we created a sequence with the present on a hand-operated turntable and a 'cobra cam'.
The cobra cam was our homemade rig to take the digital stills camera from the side of the box to the top of the box.
To make the present grow in size, we made 25 scale presents and shot them in sequence. To do this we had to buy the entire supply of red ribbon from John Lewis's haberdashery department but it was all worth it in the end!
The sequence was shot against a chroma key and composited using After Effects. Again this was a great project as I learned so much, most of all how useful Excel can be when calculating exponential deceleration in degrees of rotation.
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