Pixilation - Frame-by-Frame Stop Motion: The Guide to Non-Traditional Animation Techniques - page 43

Fig 3.11 Shots from Big Bang Big Boom demonstrating the use of two-dimensional and three-dimensional elements shot frame by frame.
Directed by Blu, © 2010.
Light is an element that many contemporary artists are starting to rediscover.
Light generally plays a big role in photographic frame-by-frame animation
because it gives form to objects and sets atmosphere. Pixilation filmmakers
create films both indoors and outdoors with controlled and “wild” lighting,
lighting that occurs naturally. The sun is the largest light that we utilize, but
human generated lights both in the studio and out in the streets have great
potential to be exploited. Painting with light, frame by frame, has begun to
expand with today's technology. By using LED lights or even bright flashlights
in a dark environment, you can create a light painting. Like the other
techniques discussed, you must use a dslr camera that has all manual controls
on a tripod. By setting the shutter speed to a long exposure (at least 2 seconds
and potentially longer), you can draw streaking light images frame to frame.
Fig 3.12 tools required to light paint—camera, tripod, lights (LeD, etc.)-and colored gels.
The light(s) must face the camera lens as you draw an outline or image. Since
the room is dark, the light painter should wear dark clothes and may disappear
from the final image all together. It is also helpful for the light painters to move
their position frame to frame to help hide their presence. The light, which is