Stop Motion is evolving…
7th August 2008
It’s come a long way since the days of Morph. This series of spots by Australian Director Liz Murphy and Taxi look more like CGIs at first glance, but were in fact built using real props and shot on full scale sets. Liz Murphy explains:
“We used the new Dragon Stop Motion software to capture all the images—saved us so much time—and used two Canon 1D MkIIIs and a Canon 40D. Since both have “live view” features, we could onion skin really easily between previous frames, and frames about to be taken. This made moving the camera far more achievable, and prevented making major mistakes as there wasn’t much chance of going backwards once we started doing some major dismantling and camera movement. The car and building spots were shot in reverse…

