This Incredible Stop-Motion Scene Was Made with 444 Photos
Would you like to race in an office chair?
Kevin Parry is a Stop-Motion Animator who has a lot of skills in creating scenes that trick the mind, and he shared on his social media how he made a funny animation of himself racing in an office chair.
What we see in the video is him flooring an invisible pedal to get going, and then hurtling at full speed into a traffic of random objects. In another post, he mentioned that the animation was created with 444 photos that he took over 10 days.
Parry also shared a more in-depth video of the creation process on YouTube, where he explained that he started the project by making a quick sketch of the scene, and then he wrote a screenplay to better guide how each shot should look.
He blocks the animation by setting up the camera and taking photos of important points of the story, to then define which ones work to make a cohesive scene. To have a better guide, he adds to the image something that looks like a half-circle protractor to see when and where the camera needs to be.
Parry also explains something very important in almost every animation, and that is to catch people's attention during the first seconds. He needed the viewer to understand at the beginning that the chair is like a car, and that's why the first movements we see are crucial for the scene.
Other aspects the artist broke down were how he achieved the smoke effects by using crumbled paper, bedsheets, and cotton; the police lighting by using a changing-color light; objects moving coherently by moving them two floorboard widths per frame and making the floor and ceiling appear like they also had movement by adding in post-production a shadow that travels across them throughout the animation.
Check out the video to see all the details:
Parry has a lot of experience and skills in creating scenes that catch your attention and make you look at them in a loop, wondering how they were made; when you see the creation process, you're also impressed by all the work and creativity behind it.
Take a look at other animations of his:
If you are a coffee lover like me, you'll want this to be possible to do: