It’s been a while since we’ve had a Stop Motion Saturday. It’s back, and this time in a whole different format: the classic animated Gif.
Much in the genre of one of our previous stopmo’s, Make and Old Fashioned, this is a recipe for the Ramos Gin Fizz (a drink made popular in the 1880′s). This time it’s brought to you in poster form, but for web.
This one was a lot of fun to animate – we used a black t-shirt for a backdrop, and numerous little tricks to hold stuff together. The dropper had a little holder/armature with a counter-weight, which was later masked out. The pour from the shaker had a very jerry-rigged construction consisting of chopsticks, a vice-grip, and rubber bands. And last but not least, was the foam. Trying to animate real emulsified egg whites was surely going to be a problem (and we didn’t have enough light to shoot video at ISO 100) – so instead we used something that looked just like it: shaving cream!
Sarah worked on the layout while I did some rotoscoping, grading, minor fx, and of course, the loops.
Here are some pictures of our setups while we were prepping and shooting.
Love it!
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in some time! Good work!
OBSESSED with this. I’d like this to my desktop background, please. Animation and all.