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Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

Detsu London has an interesting video up on Vimeo where they combine long-exposure “light painting” with 3D Modeling and an iPad to create text and models floating in space, then use those images in a stop-motion movie of robots and text flying around us.

We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation.

Several people are calling this an “iPad  Hologram”, which is inaccurate.  It’s a clever combination of catchy words, but this is more realistically something like stop-motion light-painting, similar to the Sprint Flashlight commercials, but using an iPad.

via Making Future Magic: iPad light painting on Vimeo.

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Craig Baldwin has written up a great step-by-step tutorial on using Premiere Pro to create stop-motion animations from source photographs.

Before getting started in Premiere Pro you’ll need to have taken your photos, copied them onto your computer and (in this tutorial) made them 1920 x 1080. I do this because 1080p is the best HDTV resolution you can get and also because on its lowest setting my camera takes 1920 x 1200 pixel photos so it’s easy to batch resize all my photos. To find out more about Photoshop Actions read Quick Look #5.

Personally I would’ve used AfterEffects, but more options is always welcome.

Putting together a Stop Motion animation in Premiere Pro – Craig Baldwin’s Blog.

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