Our Motion is Stop

After a little hiatus and a large goodbye to almost all of the crew, Kirsten and I are back in the studio to finish off what we all started this summer.  The first step was cleaning up the place.  Sorry dave, but we took down the fort…we had some great times in there, but it just had to go.  Even more sad was the machine, which is now all over the studio.  Don’t be all sad though, we made a video of it coming down!!

Now we’re building the next/last set for the animation, so look for updates soon!

OMIS

The event was a lot of fun, more people then expected showed up to go through our process. Thanks especially to our friend Jayarr who jammed with the group as the night was winding down(Giana as well on the pipes with Alex hermonican and Rob with the guitar).  A webcam was setup, unbeknown to the group, to capture the experience.

If you would still like to check out the studio, we’ll be around all next week, just send us a message and we’ll be more then happy to get you ‘the tour’(or jam if you’re into it).

So, animation has officially begun, in fact, after tonight, we will have almost 40 seconds animated!!!  Just in time too, because in 4 days its FIRST FRIDAY here in Rochester.  For those who don’t know, the first Friday of every month in Rochester is a bit of a big deal for the art world.  All of the galleries show off their best(http://www.firstfridayrochester.org/).

You all should head on over to our contribution to the day(details HERE). Our blog may be mind blowingly amazing, but you can’t grasp how crazy the actual studio is.  The finished piece won’t be done for another month or so, but we’ll be showing off each shot shot so far as well as the entire “Machine” and even our character mold.

Talking about the character, our friend Alex GF has complete the basic design and now we are waiting on our chemicals to be shipped so we can cast and animate him.  We’ve stumbled upon a great DVD detailing the exact process needed to make the ideal Stop Motion Puppet.

A preview of an unedited shot, see it animated on Friday at our studio!

This past week we’ve, lets be honest, told the machine who’s really boss. All the pieces are in place, parts are ready for animation, and the little details (oh the details) just look awesome. We have finally hit the point where pre-production is coming to an end and we are ready to start animation! I can’t show you too much, because that’d ruin the surprise, but checkout what we’ve been up to.

Dave, looking rather god like, pondering the weeks of animation that soon face him

Georgi yelling at the god like Dave (I know, seriously?) because he took apart this AWESOME machine part.

A fitting portrait of Nicole, because we all know how much I get into my work (you should've seen my legs).

You have no idea how excited I am of these little little details.

JUST LOOK AT IT!!? gah.

Dear Viewers,

Our fancy new domain is finally up, and we want to release our first animation, an intro which will be featured in front of all our videos. We know its short but we’re proud of it, so enjoy and leave your thoughts!

A more demanding and talkative friend of ours watched this and said, “what comes after it? What’s the content? What does this even mean?”

Yes, I know we’re cryptic but I assure you, you’re gonna want to see this one through(watch the “R” the second time). Stay tuned!

Sincerely,

OMIS