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PURE TALENT — Stop-motion movies like the "Wallace and Gromit" series and Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas" are popular for a lot of reasons, one of the big ones being the insane talent and patience that goes into making them.
It seems so easy, the movies flowing so smoothly. It can't take that much effort, can it?
When I was in eighth grade, we made a stop-motion video in my computer design class that went with an audio track the teacher had made. We separated into groups to make three-second scenes for the video. Three seconds, not so bad, right?
Wrong. Our three-second clip took us the entire hour-and-a-half class, and the end result was choppy and somewhat rushed.
When something that short took so long, I can't imagine making not only an entire minute-and-a-half stop-motion video, but also including long exposure photography — that includes great drawing skills — complete with sound effects.
The featured video, made by Darren Pearson, is exactly that. It includes 686 photographs, almost all of them long-exposure (think at least 30 seconds per picture taken).
The video, titled "Fiat Lux," tells a short story of a skeleton collecting jewels, using portals to find the jewels and store them in his satchel. The time the video took to make is evident in the sky's variations between sunny light and dark with speckled stars.
Pearson has more cool videos on his YouTube account.
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