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 Attack
of the ID Monster
by Dan Anderson.
A fan
created tributeto the classic Forbidden Planet (1956) 01.31.10 * Stop
Motion is Alive & Well in Connecticut USA ..... As you have just watched
at SMW
Random Cinema (above), my eclectically gifted Stop Mo buddy, Dan Anderson has
had a long time passion with Stop Motion.This is not his only talents.
He runs his own studio offering services for all manner of media:
Entertainment, advertising, communications, etc..  Back in the StopMoShorts days (before the existence of YouTube) Dan and some other artists had  a 'Showcase'
page. It was sort of a mini-portfolio. StopMoShorts
closed its doors back in mid-2008 but many of
the SMS pages have
been archived at Archive.org.
I
was recently 'spying' 
around there and after numerous attempts, I was
able to download some of the archived SMS pages and found Dan
Anderson's SMS Showcase page. Archive.org has hellishly slow servers
(or they're too cheap to upgrade?) and one has to try many times to get
the archived pages to download. Let us revisit
& reminisce and return to
the good simpler days (because the troubling times of 'today',
sucks). I
was able to retrieve almost all of Dan Anderson SMS Showcase page
(from
Archive.org) and I semi-recreated it StopMoShorts: Attack of
the ID
Monster. You can see Dan's fan
tribute to the
1956 classic,
Forbidden
Planet. Dan's been quiet on the Messageboards for a very long
while but I can guess that
he is occupied with the 'vicissitudes of life' and paying the rent,
bills, family responsibilities, etc.. Producers, Ad Agencies,
and Studios, check out Dan's Animation
Daddy Studios website. Mega loads of frigg'n TALENT back
there in Connecticut!____________________ 01.11.10 * SuperBattle:
Episode 1 ..... Announcement
just out that Animator &
Director, Ethan
Marak is ready to unleash his all Stop Motion
animated 'epic' short onto the
public, called SuperBattle.
I
am astounded at Ethan's patience. Inbetween moves to
different cities and his other jobs, 
he's had the astounding perseverance to pursue this goal. He also had
to put up with me, as my
own schedule, such as my own regular 'joe-job' (that pays the
rent/bills), 'life', and my ocassional mental funk periods, caused me
delays in completing the custom designed Stop Motion armature for one
of his main characters, Brawl
Magnet.
If I was him, I would have been
'pissed off' at me! Nevertheless, Ethan was always cool, calm &
easy-going. The WAIT was worth it. Very high quality production values!
Check-out Ethan's website, which has loads of behind the scenes pics
SuperBattle:
Episode 1
A big thumbs up to
Ethan and his crew  * ZonMotion: Free & Simple MAC Stop Motion Software ..... If you use Mac 'puters, this is very bare bones Stop Motion frame grabber but I assume it does the job, so, do not complain. It's FREE. Here is description, "ZonMotion is lightweight application to do Stop Motion animations and Time Lapse recordings. With it you will be able to do Stop Motion captures easily thanks to the overlay option, and do no-brainer Time Lapses with almost zero configuration." I do not use Macs but I have heard that Apple's OS can have compatibiltiy with  webcams? If that
is true, how stupid
is that for a high end company such as Apple, that it cannot handle
basic simple webcams? Anyway, here is link to ZonMotion.
Also,
there's another website that says if you have problems with
webcams not working with Macs, they suppose to have drivers to make them
work Macam.
I'm also thinking, if you are 'Budget Poor' maybe ZonMotion can be
used in conjunction with your Digital Still Camera as a 'Preview' stop
motion capture tool to check your animation movements? If you
experiment with it, feel free to let
me know if it works for you.* SMW Random Cinema: Gumby creator, ART CLOKEY 
1921- 2010 .... Gumby
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