![]() Lighting was setup with 3 LED torches behind some wax paper, hanging from a fan. The tracks were done using Hot Wheels toy cars with the body removed. ![]() I shot it all using a Canon 7D with a Canon 50mm Macro Lens. Without FreeForm Pro, I would have been toast. It all moved relatively quickly once I got into the groove. FunKey S Tiny foldable retrogaming handheld console for your keychain. With a combination of a sphere effect and FreeForm Pro I was able to get them into place and with textures and displacement maps, I think I got them looking a bit more real. The curves of the faces (which I realised weren’t perfectly round), the body contours. Almost plugged the whole thing to be honest. I sat for days trying to figure this all out. All the moving parts of the characters, I had to recreate in after effects and then keyframe into place. This worked with some, others I had to individually pick out the photos that were lagging or rushing. I ran all the sequences through Twixtor to smooth them out. 3 Days and 6000 photos later, I had all my shots. I set up a little shooting cave in my house with lights and got shooting. Second hand, but turned out nicely as they came with scratches and imperfections. The toys had been discontinued, but I managed to find a whole lot on Ebay. Thought it would make for an great animation, as the characters are all very creative and a little sinister. They are for some computer game, you plug them in for a new character or something like that. They are just little plastic figurines about 8cm tall.
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