Motion control... working!

Hi! I started working on my motion control project again!
In May 2011 an article about a DIY motion control caught my attention. I was especially interested to try it with the Dragonframe software. I followed the idea of Martin Koch but replaced the wire with a steel threaded rod and two nuts, to make it more suitable and reliable for stop motion animation.
Because I was working on other things as well I only started ordering the materials in 2013. After assembling everything, the rail movement worked when testing a few scripts, but I couldn't control it with Dragonframe.
 Now, after two years (and again, working on other things), I decided to give the prototype another go. And for some reason it works! I uploaded the provided script (without the kill switch line in the code) and the Arduino Uno connects and works perfectly with Dragonframe :)

I made a little video to show you the MC in action!
I'll do some more tests later to find out how well it can return to it's original position and such.

 
Motion Control - First test from Maarten Van Rooy on Vimeo.

New website & showreel

I recently have a new portfolio-website! There is a new showreel on there too!

www.maartenvanrooy.com

 

Drums commercial

Here's another commercial I did for Groove Music Shop:

New Groove saxophone commercial

Another commercial appeared online!

Groove commercial online

Hi again! Here's the commercial for Groove Music Shop I've been working on last month:

This is the first out of a series of three commercials. The next two will be finished in the Summer season.

Groove commercial stuff!

In the near future I'll post the short commercial I did for Groove Music Shop.
For now, here is already a bit of extra stuff! Some pictures I made during the making of the commercial.

These are the two versions of the guitar, for the biggest part made out of balsa wood.

Almost ready for shooting!

In mid-air! The wires and the strap were very véry annoying :)

Before shooting I made a little test for the explosion of the amplifier. This one is done at 24fp (in the commercial I did it on 12fps). I changed some stuff for the final animation, like the way the piece of wood falls down.

Because I had some issues with the 'flickering' on the images, I will use a brand new flicker-free Nikon lens for the next commercial. Hurray!

CG Lipsync The Shining

To practice my CG skills, I animated a CG character in 3d Studio Max. It's a lipsync on the voice of Jack Nicholson in the movie The Shining by Stanley Kubrick.



Thanks to Manuel Sierra for the creating the rig.

Merry Christmas to all!

For my first Toon Boom attempt, I decided to go for an animated christmascard! Merry Christmas and a happy Newyear!

Cleaned Out is also online!

Lots of things to watch these days! You can watch it in full view on Youtube.

Showreel online!

It was already online for a couple of weeks, but forgot to tell you! Hopla!

Cleaned Out - Short Preview

As promised, here is a short preview of Cleaned Out!



Greets!

From under the dust

As the end of my school carreer is approaching, I was thinking about the first short animated sequence I did in stop frame technique. It was a chance for me and Andreas to be able to use an old Bolex 16mm, which would be replaced by digital camera's (the ones we use now).

Enjoy!

(there is no sound)

Birthday Card

A short animation I made for my girlfriends birthday.

Yakkety-Yak completed!

Indeed! The stopmotion project me and Andreas worked on all year is finally finished! A few weeks ago we were able to record the 'voices' to use in the film.

Especially for you we made a little 'making of Yakkety-Yak'! Enjoy!



Link: Yakkety-Yak blog

Flash Lipsync

A little flash lipsync with the voice of one of my buddies. He says "Hello? Mom?" in my local dialect.

Cleaning Up

Last year we've created a 4 minute stop motion short in group. There was a lot of 'clean-up' to do, so we divided the shots. Cleaning up is a slow, monotonous and non creative task. I just finished my part of the job. You can see (a part of) the result below.

Watch the full uncleaned short (youtube)

My First Paradise

Hmm, it has been a while, hasn't it? Anyway, last schoolyear, we were asked to make a short stop motion film. We decided to make one single film with the entire class. This way, our little project could be a bit bigger. The sound is still missing and the cleaning-up still has to be done. As soon as the final version is finished, I'll put it here:)

Agadoo

Our last 2d assignment this year, was to make a animation with a dancing character. I used the song 'Agadoo' from Black Lace.
Special thanks to Andreas for the shadow-trick.

Eduard

In june 2006, me and some friends put together a one-minute stop motion short.
Those who worked on this short are: Andreas De Ridder (the kid), Koen De Koninck (grandma), Koen Saelemaekers (the cat) and me (grand dad). The montage is done by Bastiaan Delforche.