Sunday, December 19, 2010

The making of the light box

Making a light box to dabble in stop-motion animation - 

It started with a potato box, and was just a little bit uneven:




















Cut a hole so I can move the light underneath:


















Experimented with tracing paper as the surface:





















But that wasn't quite what I was hoping for...so then it became magical!




 
The beauty of the greaseproof paper is that it comes in a long roll so I can easily replace the surface when it gets a bit grubby, and as my idea is to use coffee to make the animation that's going to happen quite a lot I think.

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