Image Processing Reference
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Exercise 5
The Dropping Heads
(Cutout)
This exercise requires a little photography, some X-Acto knife work, and a
simple downshooter setup. It is not necessary to shoot these cutouts on a
downshooter or a piece of glass, but that may add another element for the
more advanced animator. You are going to photograph a person (yourself )
and print out that photograph on thin card stock that you can run through a
printer. You then cut the parts of your body in sections so they can be animated.
You also need a few images from the web or magazines that have images of
different heads, which you substitute for your own head in the animation.
Make sure that these head images are basically in the same scale as your body,
although varying the scale a bit can add a lot of humor to this exercise.
Here is how it works. First, set up your dslr camera on a tripod with a wide
lens, like a 35 mm or 24 mm focal length. Have the camera facing a blank wall
with no detail on it. Frame it so you can stand in front of the camera (using the
self-timer) and shoot a shot of yourself that includes your head down to your
ExErcisE Fig 5.A
A shot of the camera setup of Exercise 5 for photographing the subject (yourself ).
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