From the course: Learning Stop Motion Animation

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Shooting in reverse

Shooting in reverse

We're ready to start shooting our animation. What we're going to do here is have the banana split apart, become sliced, and remove those slices as they're getting cut. When we're all done, that's going to play backwards, and it's going to look like the banana's re-forming. Let's also tweak the lighting in the middle of the scene. To begin with, I'm going to start with the light turned off. This is going to look like the banana has now climbed into bed Pulled up the covers for the night and is ready to go to sleep. Additionally, since I am going to see my hands, in the shot we'll take advantage of voice activation to record the frames. Here we go. Let's turn on the recording. Capture four. Now we'll turn the light on. Capture four. Capture two. Capture two. Capture two. I'm going to use that guideline for the tilt-shift effect to position the banana. Capture two. Capture two. Lets insert a slight pause. Capture four. And now, after all this time, my hands get to be in the shot on…

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