January 2021
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iguana
January was a month for stop motion animation, robots, dragonfruit, and snow.AMPDG: Stop motion video
For AMPDG I picked "Transform and roll out" - make a transformation video (of yourself, a friend, an object, etc). The first thing that came to mind was to make a stop-motion video of some sort, and I toyed with various ideas until I decided to order some modelling plasticine for it.
It took about two hours to set up and take the photos, and I'm pleased with how it came out! The various transformations were mostly improvised, though I thought it'd be nice to have a human figure in there.
I was surprised at how solid the modelling plasticine was; it made it easier to avoid large changes between each frame, but also meant I had to pick the figure up between some frames, which was inconvenient.
I also added some free music to the video on Ems' suggestion, just to make it not be 20 seconds of silence.
For AMPDG I picked "Transform and roll out" - make a transformation video (of yourself, a friend, an object, etc). The first thing that came to mind was to make a stop-motion video of some sort, and I toyed with various ideas until I decided to order some modelling plasticine for it.
It took about two hours to set up and take the photos, and I'm pleased with how it came out! The various transformations were mostly improvised, though I thought it'd be nice to have a human figure in there.
I was surprised at how solid the modelling plasticine was; it made it easier to avoid large changes between each frame, but also meant I had to pick the figure up between some frames, which was inconvenient.
I also added some free music to the video on Ems' suggestion, just to make it not be 20 seconds of silence.
Dragonfruit
My dragonfruit cutting started to grow its first new branch! A tiny bud appeared on the 11th Jan, coming from the topmost spike node (it had lost the spike in the post, but I'm not sure if that's relevant), and has been growing larger since then.
My dragonfruit cutting started to grow its first new branch! A tiny bud appeared on the 11th Jan, coming from the topmost spike node (it had lost the spike in the post, but I'm not sure if that's relevant), and has been growing larger since then.
Rossum's Universal Robots
For Ems' and Tim's AMPDG, they planned a mystery party celebrating some event that would happen on that day, and invited me to it. When I loaded the video call, they were both there dressed up as robots, and I remembered a retweet I'd spotted earlier about it being the centennary of Rossum's Universal Robots, the play that invented the word "robot".
We had a robot-dance-off and watched a Robot Wars highlight reel on Youtube. Tim got a few screenshots of my robot dance:
For Ems' and Tim's AMPDG, they planned a mystery party celebrating some event that would happen on that day, and invited me to it. When I loaded the video call, they were both there dressed up as robots, and I remembered a retweet I'd spotted earlier about it being the centennary of Rossum's Universal Robots, the play that invented the word "robot".
We had a robot-dance-off and watched a Robot Wars highlight reel on Youtube. Tim got a few screenshots of my robot dance:
Snow
On the 24th we had good, proper snow that settled quite well and stayed on the ground for a day or so. I went out for a walk while it was still coming down.
On the 24th we had good, proper snow that settled quite well and stayed on the ground for a day or so. I went out for a walk while it was still coming down.
