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I am under the consideration to make better-quality videos for my Skull Kid's Robot Wars series. What would you want to see?

Handmade
0 (0%)
Stop-motion
14 (82.4%)
Don't know
3 (17.6%)

Total Members Voted: 17

Voting closed: July 11, 2015, 12:03:44 PM

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Offline SkullKid2000

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Stop-motion or handmade?
« on: July 10, 2015, 12:03:44 PM »
Feeling a little bit like Microsoft did with many of their users/consumers of Windows 8 (myself NOT included though, I use 8.1 :smile:), I got a lot of feedback from a sharp-eyed user here called Knight. My apologies goes to him for completely ignoring his constructive criticism. Once again, I'm very sorry Knight. You're totally correct about it feeling like a chore when watching it, now afterwards when I watch it myself, I do agree on that.

But, to come to the point, what would you guys want to see in my series? Be it stop-motion (WILL take longer time between videos) or handmade (which I do prefer :smile:).

You choose! Your opinion is important for the development of my series! Please consider to vote! Thanks!

Best Wishes to you all

SkullKid2000
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Re: Stop-motion or handmade?
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2015, 01:01:44 PM »
When we see your hands on screen, that breaks the illusion, so the choice is pretty clear.  Stop motion will set you apart from the countless people who do the same thing as you.

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Re: Stop-motion or handmade?
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2015, 01:11:28 PM »
When we see your hands on screen, that breaks the illusion, so the choice is pretty clear.  Stop motion will set you apart from the countless people who do the same thing as you.
You hit it Sonny! I totally agree! I couldn't have put it in a better way myself! Consider it done!
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Re: Stop-motion or handmade?
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2015, 02:56:02 PM »
Make actual videos with RA2 ?

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Re: Stop-motion or handmade?
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2015, 03:54:15 PM »
Shortening down my slideshow between the photos to half a second (so basically, every photo is half of a second). Anyways, it became one minute of a video. Put like an hour in it or so... not sure... but here it is!
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Re: Stop-motion or handmade?
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2015, 05:40:48 PM »
More pictures, smaller movements, less time between images.

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Re: Stop-motion or handmade?
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2015, 05:45:14 PM »
More pictures, smaller movements, less time between images.
Pretty much this. You have made it much better but it just looks too much like a slideshow and not a movie. Like Kurt said, take more pictures whilst moving the toys in small increments. It will be very time consuming but you have to be prepared to take the time in order to make better quality videos.

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Re: Stop-motion or handmade?
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2015, 06:29:24 PM »
Do you have a mac? If so I would recommend iStopMotion.

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Re: Stop-motion or handmade?
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2015, 04:04:53 AM »
Thanks for the criticism guys :smile: I will indeed take that in consideration. More images, less movements, yes. I thought that it was more of a slideshow myself. But hey, it's the first time I did a stop-motion video at all, anytime.

Still, I will take more time next time to do this :smile:
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Re: Stop-motion or handmade?
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2015, 08:11:58 AM »
that's not too bad. though you should try and find a way to simulate damage