Comments on: My Paper Mind

My Paper Mind

gwint — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:08:08 -0800

My Paper Mind is a 44 second animation created by Javan Ivey using his stratastencil technique.

By: echo target

echo target — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:26:56 -0800

Wow, that's really labor-intensive. I did some hand animation in college, just markers on paper, and even that requires a touch of OCD. Cutting out all the frames by hand would be even more work, not to mention the time it then takes to capture all the frames hung up just so on a rail. 12-15 frames a second (a typical rate for hand animation) is 528-660 frames for the 44 seconds we just saw.

By: ZippityBuddha

ZippityBuddha — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:36:26 -0800

That is really lovely

By: MaryDellamorte

MaryDellamorte — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:28:16 -0800

Wow, that was pretty amazing. Goes to show that some people are really focused. In the time it took him to make that, I would have started and stopped about 10 projects. My attention span is not much to speak of.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:09:09 -0800

That was wonderful.

By: carter

carter — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:19:45 -0800

Very nice! A lot of work ...

By: danb

danb — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:00:33 -0800

That is an insane amount of work.

By: disillusioned

disillusioned — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:08:39 -0800

MaryDellamorte—I would've cracked up if you just ended the last sentence at "not".

By: ubersturm

ubersturm — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:31:07 -0800

Damn. Nice. I've still got the papers from some of my marker-and-paper animations, and yeah, I had somewhere around thousand pages of paper for an animation a little longer than a minute - and that was by no means perfectly smooth animation. But sketching stuff in sharpie's easier than cutting scenes out of cardstock, by far.

By: The Deej

The Deej — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:42:23 -0800

In the time it took him to make that, I would have started and stopped about 10 projects. My attention span is not much to speak of. posted by MaryDellamorte That's exactly what I thought. My mind wanders to much. I have a hard time finishing anyt

By: rokusan

rokusan — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:52:27 -0800

The stop animation "making of" video on his website is almost as interesting as the result. My favorite part is when after 12 hours or so of the 18 hours he spent cutting and assembling... he needed his glasses. I laughed.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:51:16 -0800

...I'd assumed they were laser-cut pages. All the more impressive — and, somehow, more "artistic" — that he was looney enough to do it all by hand. I don't know why I didn't assume it was computer animation. One could pull off a perfectly good version of the same idea without cutting up several reams of paper; no one would ever be the wiser.

By: gorgor_balabala

gorgor_balabala — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:24:49 -0800

fff, I saw the work in process, and I suspect that everyone would be the wiser had it not been made by hand. It would not look at all special or interesting that way. That's the real beauty of it. Vive la difference!

By: dan g.

dan g. — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:10:54 -0800

yow...impressive.

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:06:01 -0800

My goodness, that looked like hard work.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:07:43 -0800

I'd like to have a go at this myself but I don't think I'm cut out for it somehow.