Well, my project this week was to use photos of the prints I made and blogged about for my last post to make an animation of the original image. I scanned them into my computer, and then set about creating a moving film with them as I have been doing with the lost and damaged ciné film frames.
Sadly I recently updated my computer to Apple’s latest operating system, and the new versions of the software I had used before utterly defeated me. I must have spent three hours creating projects of blank frames, scouring google for solutions and cursing every technology that used to be my friend… Until I decided to have a go with my phone using an app called Stop Motion.
It sounded too good to be true. But thankfully this app did everything I needed as swiftly and slick as I could ever have wished. There was a nasty moment when it looked like my animation might have cartoon curtains, but I’ve managed to avert them, and here is my new video:
It is short, but I’m very proud of it. Should we suffer for art? I think life’s too short.
