Digital Kitchen Seattle just completed this cinematic opener for SIFF. We are so excited to see studios like DK creating fresh, inventive work with Dragon Stop Motion.
Justin Cone of Motionographer asked Digital Kitchen about their process:
In executing the piece, we created a small set-up in our Seattle studio consisting of two rear-illuminated lightboxes made of 5 panes of glass layered on top of a diffusion layer. Each layer of glass had an element that was either animated frame by frame or was static to create the environment.
For example, a scene might have a layer of diffusion, a painted layer, a layer of characters that we could articulate, and a layer of organic materials, etc. that created the environment. We mounted a Canon Rebel XSi over animation stands, and connected directly to a Mac Pro workstation running the stop-motion software Dragon.
(Although looking at the making-of footage it looks like a Mac Book. Maybe they have two stations?)