When you try this for the first time, pick out a gif that is repeating in a very quick loop, e.g. Keep in mind: the longer the animation duration is, the more frames you have to reproduce. You´ve to downsize the image to 200pixel (or the neede size of your pixelstick-settings) and export each frame as bmp (Windows, 24bit), so the pixelstick can read the files.
PIXELSTICK AND AMBIANT LIGHT FULL
in Photoshop, it will show you a full timeline of all frames.
When you open a gif with a picture-editor, e.g. So I grabbed the animation you can see below, inverted and resized it to 200x200 pixel, exporting then the single frames of the animation as bitmap files with black background for feeding my pixelstick. I always was a fan of PATAKK, who´s a genius gif-animator working with processing and C4D. There are tons of nice gif animations to find on the web, so it´s up to your choice to pick out a good one for this experiment.
PIXELSTICK AND AMBIANT LIGHT SOFTWARE
Stopmotion is nothing different but the option to create a cool Super8 filmlook with lightainting pictures by putting one picture after the other in a filmediting software and export it as a clip. In the second step you start moving the stick upwards with a tight move towards the lens and then a bit back again. When you twirl the stick during this move, a simple glow-effect appears which will make your flat image much deeper with a nice 3D-taste. When you combine images in one picture, having a camera with live-view modus helps the procedure, otherwise you have to try out as long as the overlap of both fired images is creating a perfect match. Move the stick slow and even to get a clear and less squeezed typography. In step one I moved the stick with the typo image "off the wall" from the ground (1) - next to a straight wall makes it easier to make sure it looks kinda flat. When you create a fade to black on top of a color like in the blue part of the "off the wall" image, the LEDs of the stick will create a nice softedge fade which creates deepness, the sharp ending of a color like the pink finish sharp-edged. Also good to know - if you use a pixelstick without milkglass filters, the brightness of each single LED will create much more of a 3D effect when you twirl the stick. You can create different looks of a stick with milkglass filters, colorfilters and by the setting of your picture (borderless with black background or fullframe picture touching the edges of the image). Bright fine concrete floors can create a beautyfull reflection, as well as water/ rain does.ħ. The surrounding might pick up the light too. Ducktape or chalk is a good helper to leave marks on the floor.Ħ. Again, think about speed, body-movement and clear in- and outpoints which you can repeat in the darkness. A good animation takes much more time than a single lightpainting shot. You can use a pixelstick for single pictures, but also for generating stopmotion animations. typography can be very powerfull for lightpainting and it leaves you creative freedom of what you want to say.ĥ. Have a clear concept idea in mind before you start. The speed of yourself walking threw the picture directly affects the proportions of the pixelstick generated image.Ĥ. Depending on your movements and walkingpaths, you can create completly different results from the same picture.ģ. You can use this for leaving a complete image in the picture-setting or you just use it as an abstract pattern generator. It also allows ongoing repetition of a file or just a single playback. The pixelstick works like a scanner, blasting out one line of a picture after the other. It´s also a good help to take a snapshot with your mobile device from the thumbnail-overview of the SD-card, so you will know exactly which picture is selected on the stick later on.Ģ. Name your files propperly so you know later on which picture shows up in the darkness. This might take a while before you can start with the real action. Be aware that a pixelstick includes computer work upfront.
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