The Animation Studio opens

Just published my first test video onto Youtube. First try was with blue material but the video camera I’m using didn’t pick up the colour at all. Not sure if this is a common problem with consumer video cameras or not, but I did read that green is preferred for digital video.

Star Wars Lego flying through the flat.
Star Wars Lego flying through the flat.

Coming back from lunch I walked past a textile shop in Clapham, the fabulously named “Jeanette Fashions”. As luck would have it they had some lovely green felt, with a very saturated appearance at under a tenner a metre. On the video camera screen this looked a lot better. The results can be seen in the YouTube clip – what was missing was some decent lighting of the green backdrop. In fact it was just a 60W ceiling light.

On the next test I aim to use a 500W worklight, which having angle-grinded (ground?) the padlocks off my shed, I can now get access to!