Comments on: Light Pen Animation

Light Pen Animation

absalom — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:14:51 -0800

If you have a lot of time on your hands and a deep love for animation and LEDs, you might put together something like this. [via]

By: clyde

clyde — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:17:39 -0800

that's wicked! it reminds me of some of the el-wire creations that are often photographed at burning man.

By: sixacross

sixacross — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:32:42 -0800

That's pretty awesome. I suspect we'll see it in a music video in the near future.

By: jonson

jonson — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:38:29 -0800

quite wonderful!

By: DakotaPaul

DakotaPaul — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:12:37 -0800

Awesome. Thanks for posting!

By: drezdn

drezdn — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:24:31 -0800

Neat!

By: gamera

gamera — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:23:42 -0800

That's just amazing. Thanks!

By: dbiedny

dbiedny — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:28:58 -0800

Wowee!

By: StrasbourgSecaucus

StrasbourgSecaucus — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:29:26 -0800

the final image (with the duck and the little green worm) also gives away the secret to how they did it.

By: sour cream

sour cream — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 04:57:49 -0800

Care to elaborate Strasbourg? Cause I still don't get it. Does it have to do with the monitor on the right?

By: eriko

eriko — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 06:56:09 -0800

Ahh, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. New tech meets old. Tex Avery would be proud.

By: namagomi

namagomi — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:49:32 -0800

beautiful, thank you.

By: quin

quin — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:08:35 -0800

This is amazingly cool. How great an animator do you have to be to be able to animate something where you can't see the previous frame? Or the frame you are working on?

By: Zombie Dreams

Zombie Dreams — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:57:19 -0800

Pentastic!

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:14:07 -0800

sour cream writes "Care to elaborate Strasbourg?
"Cause I still don't get it. Does it have to do with the monitor on the right?" Yeah. Looks like she's using some sort of stop motion software. Something like this, although I doubt it's precisely the same program. You can see the frames filling up across the top of her screen. quin, I would say that they can see the previous frame (or multiple previous frames, as these programs often have onion skinning) and can see the current frame after the exposure is finished and thus can decide whether they want to do it over. Not taking away from the skill on display, of course. This is really, really awesome.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:58:34 -0800

FYI, the link doesn't go to the top level; it's just one page among many. People just skimming the link might not realize that and miss some cool stuff!

By: absalom

absalom — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:28:24 -0800

Yes, indeed. Copy/pasted the wrong address. I am shamed.

By: absalom

absalom — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:38:14 -0800

I did a roundup here. (self link)