Transformers Stopmotion compilation

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9 ай бұрын

A while back I created a daily stopmotion challenge for myself. It was just something to help me become more productive and to get me out of a rut. I didn't intend it as a challenge for other people, but folks liked the idea and joined in. I didn't get very far; about 104 days of stop motion animations. A couple of individuals went harder and completed an animation everyday for a whole year! Amazing.
I published the daily stop motion challenge as a series of vertical format youtube shorts. What I didn't tell people is that I shot the whole series for both portrait and landscape formats. So here is a compilation of my daily shorts in a wider aspect ratio.
Some animations worked better in portrait mode, others in landscape. What do you think is the better format. If you want to see how they originally played try this playlist: • Daily Stop Motion Chal...
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@BotBenderOrinj 8 ай бұрын

I'm 30% in right now and the details, nuances, choreography, and storyboarding for all of them is just insane!

@water_bottle4233 8 ай бұрын

Hey ive seen you before

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

There's a lot of improv here.

@michaelpapp5518 8 ай бұрын

Truth. Low key one of my favorite KZfaq animators.

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

@@michaelpapp5518 high key thanks for the praise

@michaelpapp5518 8 ай бұрын

@@CardboardBotsthanks for the content! It helps me feel content. Ha ha!

@THE14THPRIME229 8 ай бұрын

WOW. Just … WOW. I am in tears over how AWESOME this is . Sidenote - my wife is like This is amazing .

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

Tell your wife, that she is amazing! You're pretty awesome too. But don't let it go to your head.

@bredmond812 8 ай бұрын

I legit feel pain and concern whenever a bot gets crashed into by another bot.

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

I feel your pain, especially when I forget a crash is going to happen.

@originaluddite 8 ай бұрын

Plasticine - the original transforming toy. :)

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

Claymation for the win!

@THE14THPRIME229 8 ай бұрын

Ok… Thank you . Running to my studio

@ultramaximusreviews 8 ай бұрын

Good lord - the flickering of the Huffers and other figures... that had to take FOREVER! LOL you can tell the comments from people who also do stop motions 😁

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

You get it.

@penge01313 8 ай бұрын

Now this is tanfastic! 14.5 minutes if CB stop-motion goodness. 👍🏻 I’m already looking forward to your next video. 😁

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

Ha ha!. Thanks. The next review is close to completion, but it won't be as intense as this.

@KeejTV 8 ай бұрын

14 minutes of quality

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

Tanks!

@michaelpapp5518 8 ай бұрын

6:19 accurate.

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

Shazam!

@ultramaximusreviews 8 ай бұрын

I always love your sound effects. And very clean lighting.

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. I work hard on sound effects. They help sell even the poorest of my animations. Lighting is something that I'm still struggling with. I think I can do better on lighting, but I've kinda just "set it and forget it" for a long time. I'd like to use soft boxes or diffusers in the future. To help eliminate glare off shiny plastic surfaces.

@KensToyCorner 8 ай бұрын

I enjoyed that way too much. I want more! Great job man

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

You are too kind. Thank you so much. I'm working on something new right now. Just taking a break to say thanks.

@donutimusprimal3405 8 ай бұрын

Man I really wish I had done more of your daily stop motion challenge, just not easy to have the time to do stop motion consecutively every day

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

I think you did alright trying it out. It was a bigger task than I could pull off. I literally did mot have the time to do it on the level of production that I was doing. Each animation was about 2 hours of work. Talk about a grind!

@grimmstudios4041 8 ай бұрын

Amazing animations and car go boom into frenzy

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

Thanks. Wait a minute... Frenzy does not appear in this video.

@younglinc9950 8 ай бұрын

Always amazing

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

No, you are.

@Help_me682 8 ай бұрын

Great animation as usual👍

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

Thanks very much. It was all older stuff, reassembled in a new form factor.

@GRiNDWiZARD187 8 ай бұрын

not bad at all , very smooth animations my dude

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

Thanks. My next video will feature some deliberately janky animation to balance it out.

@GRiNDWiZARD187 8 ай бұрын

@@CardboardBots only in the best Janky ok!

@THE14THPRIME229 8 ай бұрын

Where are my pannnnts😂😂😂😂

@Crasher1982 8 ай бұрын

Wonderful job. I can't imagine the work it takes to make 14 mins, one guy told me it took 4 hours to make just two mins.

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

This project easily took over 200 hours.

@Crasher1982 8 ай бұрын

@@CardboardBots Ay caramba! 200! Well I appreciate you taking 200 hours of your time - a lot of effort - to make this for us. I love stop motion. Appreciate also the effort it takes to create it.

@Skelevision1 8 ай бұрын

Soundwave review 👀

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

That would be fun

@OfficialTransformers 8 ай бұрын

Great Job as usual 🎬🎬🎬‼️‼️

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

Thank you, my man

@TTMMH42 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic compilation. I hope you don't mind me studying your techniques.

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

Take techniques freely. Anything you can take away from these animations is more than fine. I don't really use camera movements but I've seen you experiment with them. My common techniques include: - use of sound effects - reseting the stage with subject slides or crashes - a bit of simplified camera shake to help sell hits - way too much subject spinning - step by step transformations for instructional purposes - quick transformation for fun - letting a "weight" bounce (see Buggyman turn into car and bounce a bit when he hits the ground) - show scale, it's hard to tell the scale of a legends scale or a leader scale if the neutral stage has no reference for comparison. That's partly why I show my hands

@TTMMH42 8 ай бұрын

@@CardboardBots back in the day (pre KZfaq) I used to do this stuff with a friend he worked the camera and did such an amazing job with camera shakes and bumps. I'm to lazy and have so little space to work in but I have been trying to work in some camera moves. It's not always successful. We had a montra of "if the figure falls just change the camera angle" lol. Now I do it solo on this channel ,and very low tech, but I have to point out I really admire how smooth your animation is, especially on little things like getting a figure to stand up it's those transitional shots of them balancing between sitting and standing that are so fricken hard, also damn good lighting I need to work on that.

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

@@TTMMH42 Good tip about changing the the camera angle after a figure fall. I'll have to remember that. Sometimes what I do if I leave a figure in a pose at the end of a session, at the beginning of a new session I might zoom in using the camera (or in post) to cover any change in lighting or any movement in the stage. As for transitional shots and balance, I often build up behind the figure using sticky tack or I use something heavy like a double-A battery + sticky tack if I need extra weight some where. Lot's of experimentation to figure out the best why to support a transition and how to hide support from the camera.

@THE14THPRIME229 8 ай бұрын

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

@davidm4566 8 ай бұрын

I hear some Mega Man music in the background

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

Yes a little bit for ambience

@spurfan76 8 ай бұрын

Nice video but I disagree on the comment about Earthrise Prime being the best ever made.....

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

MP-10 disagreed too. I found his argument to br compelling.

@michaelpapp5518 8 ай бұрын

8:16 unpleasant. No, thank you.

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

The fish heads skit always brings a smile to my face

@michaelpapp5518 8 ай бұрын

@@CardboardBots ha ha! You monster! I blame my future nightmares on you, sir.

@michaelpapp5518 8 ай бұрын

8:49 Have you ever had to restart an animation because the cardboard box background broke mid filming?

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

Good question. I can't recall having to restart a shoot because of cardboard stage failure. Early on, I might have had to reassembly it because I put something off-balance. Nowadays, it's very sturdy.

@michaelpapp5518 8 ай бұрын

@@CardboardBots what do you do to support your backgrounds?

@CardboardBots 8 ай бұрын

@michaelpapp5518 I built a very sturdy and tall work bench out of 2x4 lumber. Plywood acts as a storage shelf underneath, and I have a repurposed kitchen countertop as the top surface. Cardboard is taped to the wall as a background and taped to the countertop surface. My old community posts might have photographs of my work bench.