
Passion Pit "To Kingdom Come"
4 months ago
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Stop motion and still assets were mostly shot with a Canon Digital Rebel XT. A few stills were shot on a Nikon, but I don't know the model name at the moment.
Re: the birds, I had thought about doing that shot in Processing, but I ended up coding a simplified version of Craig Reynolds 'Boids' algorithm directly in After Effects with expressions. In retrospect, that was a mistake - either due to limitations of the expression engine or my skills as a programmer, calculating each frame really started to get bogged down at around 60-70 birds (there are something like 300 in the shot). In the end, the prerender for just the birds took a few hours on my brand-new computer, whereas if I had done it in Processing, it probably would have finished in a few minutes.