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Light painting in stop motion with the iPad

by Mike Schramm Sep 15th 2010 at 5:30PM

This is about the coolest thing done with an iPad since, well, the iPad itself was created. A firm named Dentsu London has used an iPad to create a series of stop motion shots assembled from sequential long exposure light paintings. They created a set of 3D graphics and then programmed the iPad to show a set of cross sections, frame-by-frame, of those graphics. The cross sections were "painted" into the air with long exposure photographs, and then the photographs were all put together into a stop motion animation.

The end effect is just amazing -- don't just watch the beginning on how they did it, make sure you stick around for the film itself. It's a beautiful piece, as well as an ingenious way of using the iPad to create something exceptional. If you're really interested in these images, the creators have also put together a book featuring some of the best stills from the video. It's quite an impressive piece of work.

[via TDW]



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diaghe

An app is now available to do this people! And here is my results http://www.flickr.com/photos/diaghe/sets/72157625005854997/

October 12 2010 at 12:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alan Carr

I adore the ethereal quality that this analog approach to special effects produces here. The ghosting silhouettes of the figures doing the light painting, the faint glow where the iPad’s screen doesn’t quite do pure black, the imperfections that come about from the human elements of imprecise movements. It’s somehow so much more than a purely digital effect could ever be.

September 16 2010 at 12:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cristopher Boyer

I'm really enjoying the music. I wonder if I can get it somehow.

September 16 2010 at 12:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
alf

amazing on HOW they did it.

But the result could be the same or better superimposing CG images on the films.

Well, I don't see the point, other than developing a very cool app for a very cool device... weel, I'm ignorant.

Alf

September 16 2010 at 5:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rego

Apparently the stop motion is contagious. I couldn't get the video to play?

September 16 2010 at 1:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
HyPerr

Dentsu is a Japanese company btw, pretty large company i must say.

September 15 2010 at 10:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
4 replies to HyPerr's comment
Mxsix

This is incredible! So simple yet awesome.

September 15 2010 at 6:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pkshaduu

The crazy thing is I was watching this exact film on Vimeo when I got the Growl notification for this article.

Freaky.

Also, amazing stop motion technique.

September 15 2010 at 6:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gaurang

Amazing!

September 15 2010 at 6:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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