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Designing a Space in 3D (Task)
For the 3D animation „Titanic’s Victims – Echoes from the Sea Floor“ I imagined a remote-controlled submarine with a spotlight transmitting noisy video & spooky sounds from the ancient sunken passenger ship. Download the original video file for better (noise) quality! This is my first Blender project, so I had to learn a few things,…
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Switching from LastPass to Firefox Sync
I use my tablet more often recently, so I need my passwords on more than one device… I seized the opportunity to quit my password manager LastPass and switch to Firefox Sync (free software). LastPass offers a „Security Challenge“ which I employed to identify and change weak passwords during the migration – logging into all…
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Pixilation Task Revisited
For „Yogilation – A Pixelated Yogi in Pixilation“ I videotaped myself practicing yoga and extracted the relevant frames with VLC (hotkeys „e“ for frame by frame navigation and „Ctrl+s“ for snapshot). I recycled the accordion music from my „Pixilation Task“, reversed it and applied the effect „Paulstretch“ with Audacity. For the graphical effects (brightness, contrast…
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Pixilation Task
For the pixilation „Accordilation – Accordion in Pixilation“ I videotaped myself playing accordion, grabbed four frames per second, added a title, applied a charcoal filter and merged the frames to video again. The course instructors curate pixilation animations in this playlist. I used the command-line interface (with a little help for ImageMagick and Libav) on…
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Cel Animation Task
For the cel animation „Walk Wait Wave“ I used the Stick Fighter app on my tablet for the stick figures and the video editor Quik to add the title as well as a nice background music: FilmoraGo is another good video editor, but it adds its name at the end of the video. The course instructors found…
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Stop Motion Task
For the stop motion animation „Cubing“ I set up my desk with three lamps for lighting, my laptop as background and a tablet with the Stop-Motion Movie Creator app for production: FutureLearn is a social learning environment at its heart – here are some social media tips and tools for social learners. The course instructors curate…
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Flip Book Task
My submission for the online course Explore Animation. I used GIMP to stitch together the individual pictures, reduce the number of colours and resize the final GIF animation: Thomas and Johnston’s twelve principles of animation are illustrated well by this video and also in these animations. The course instructors curate flipbooks in this playlist.