Just in Case

Hey, just in case your blogroll hasn’t been updated, we moved our site over to http://www.ourmotionisstop.com

There are quite a few new posts on there and there should be more as we finish up this last week of animation.

New Site is live! http://ourmotionisstop.com

Hey, we just finished the new site, meaning this one is officially a dud.

Please update your links:

http://ourmotionisstop.com

Thanks,

OMIS

Foley Foley Foley

So the past week there have been varied amounts of travel and landlord confusion which has led to a short limbo with the project. Everyone is back now and we have new keys to the studio(gold keys!) and we’re ready to get back to making some magic.

Last week we had limited access to one of the best foley studios in rochester over at RIT and pumped out some ear grinning goodness. Rob being the main audio guy with Alex, Dave and Giana making noise.

Before we had access to the foley room, we were able to get into one of the smaller sound booths on campus, Dave had his go at some selected noise-makers.

Inside the real foley studio.

The Header p.2

The header has been molded, animated, photoshopped, reanimated, masked, resized, edited and finally rendered to perfection.  Rob is currently relaxing with some organic juice in Maine while Kirsten waits for wind dried underwear by his side.  After his juice, Rob will create some sound effects for the header and we will have our first content release EVER!  The goal is next week sometime, the more comments we get, the earlier we release it(hows that for fan interaction).

While you wait, enjoy this flurry of random photos from the past week.

Creating clay letters for the header.

Making diamonds is hard work.

The setup for some reshooting on the header animation.

Alex enjoying all the light provided by the giant windows in the studio.

A salvaged thingamajigger. With some animated cotton on top, should make a great tooter.

Rob testing out some audio.

Another part for the machine, soon to be converted into something elaborate.

The hair curlers/grinders pre-spraypaint.

Our character's living quarters; the things you find at craft stores.

The final bird sketch for the intro sequence.

An extensive in-between update.

Its been awhile since we’ve gotten up some studio pictures and considering the progress we’ve made, its about time.

We’ve all been working on a few different projects, one of which is a new ‘identity branding’ for our collective. We were feeling our blog header didn’t show enough about who we are, so a night was spent creating letters in playdough and sculpey and then next animating what they made in the studio.

Sketches and plans before animation.

And then the mess that remained after.

David is currently working to finish the post production of the animation and Rob is collecting sounds, so stay tuned for an unveil of the new “Our Motion is Stop” identity soon.

While half the team was working on that, the other kept working on The Machine. After Kirsten finished up constructing a mini house for the first part of the animation (we can’t show you everything!), she moved onto one of the elements of the machine. Stayed tuned for a post from her, explaining a little more about the craft (and childhood memories) that goes into making each piece.

Kirsten and her strongly-smelling-like-coffee mountain.

Latch hooking grass details into the top.

And, AND (yes there’s more) Nicole wants to get another post up later this week with a start to finish progression of one of the elements that is going into the machine. You’ll witness what it takes to bring a sketch to life and all the weird pieces that go into each.

Sneak peek: A glass panel for one of the elements. I'll show you how I made it later this week.

Hair curlers turned metalic gears.

Make sure to add us on twitter (ourmotionisstop) so you can keep up to date with our day to day adventures.  Here is a few more images from around the studio. And as always, if your reading, let us know what you think.

On set while animating our new idenity.

During animation! Its a long process, if you couldn't tell by their faces.

A really, really long process (Kirsten's sewing skills in the background).

The studio the following morning, before Georgi and I decided it deserved a much needed cleaning.

Notable Quotes

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(or just search “our motion is stop” on facebook)

Inspiration: Orgesticulanismus

With an idea sketched out, We began to work.  Four hours later we had finished working the clay, and the collaboration mixed with its result left us reveling in our small success.

We sat down for a break, and began to search for something to get our minds off clay.

This short film by Mathieu Labaye was the first thing that came up, and we were completely humbled.  To do a piece of this caliber requires not only a superb grasp of the principles of animation, but demands a lifetime of experience with the craft of filmmaking, as well as a deep emotional attachment to the subject matter.  Mathieu Made this film as a tribute to the life of his father, Benoit Labaye, a well respected politician who was diagnosed with a rare degenerative disease at 40, and spent the rest of his life confined to a wheelchair.

It is nice to be grounded sometimes, especially after completing something you are very proud of.   We would like to thank Mathieu and his father for bringing us back.

The Header

So our header needed some work, and after some quick to-an-fros, decided that it had to:

1)Include ‘Our Motion is Stop’

2)Use different types of objects for the letters

3)Not be as cute

Enjoy the teasers below.

The S, which made it to the final edit.

one of the i's, inspired by our beloved Rochester and its obsession with hot dogs.

The other i, a reference to photographer's obsession with light.

An unfinished display of some of the letters.

One of these letters didn't make the final cut, stay tuned to find out which one!

The Progress

It all started with a dream, then long discussion in front of burning books, leading finally to a visit to home depot(twice.. no wait three times.. probably four times by the end of this post). Now, we are ready to create. Here are some progress shots.

Even with rain, we were able to get some test shots for a music video side project.

One of the more complete machine pieces.

Bear on a stick, what else is there to say?

Before starting anything, we had to create a table!

Nicole trying to figure out what might work best for the machine.

If you’re interested in specifics; Rob and Gean have completed the tripod and computer set-ups, Kirsten has completed all the cloth related pieces, David, Georgi and Alex have completed being on time, and Nicole has begun the machine.