{"id":1668,"date":"2013-05-13T17:08:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2013-05-14T04:31:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T04:31:14","slug":"the-begging-sea-lightly-stepping-animated-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/2013\/05\/13\/the-begging-sea-lightly-stepping-animated-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The Begging Sea &#8211; &#8220;Lightly Stepping&#8221; (animated music video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months ago, Nate Henry (formerly of the band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherwoodmusic.net\/\">Sherwood<\/a>) contacted me about making a construction-paper stop-motion animated music video for one of the songs off his new band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebeggingsea.com\/\">The Begging Sea<\/a>&#8216;s upcoming album. Tons of construction-paper (and coffee) later, here we are releasing the music video online. It premieres today on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.AbsolutePunk.net\">AbsolutePunk.net<\/a>, and his album is open for pre-orders <a href=\"http:\/\/thebeggingsea.bigcartel.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To animate &#8220;Lightly Stepping,&#8221; I used colored construction paper, a light box (mainly for the starry night effect), my DSLR camera hooked-up to my Mac running the latest version of the program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonframe.com\/\">Dragonframe<\/a> (the same software used to animate the stop-motion film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonframe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/laika-paranorman\/\">ParaNorman<\/a>).  I also did a lot of touch-up work in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/aftereffects.html\">Adobe After Effects CS6<\/a>, and I even used an iPhone app called Frameographer for some shots!<\/p>\n<p>Since I have been getting quite a few music video inquiries lately, I do need to add the disclaimer that I&#8217;m only considering projects with a budget.  But if you do have a budget (and a good song), <a href=\"mailto:beehray@gmail.com\">contact me<\/a> and let&#8217;s see what we can do together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months ago, Nate Henry (formerly of the band Sherwood) contacted me about making a construction-paper stop-motion animated music video for one of the songs off his new band The Begging Sea&#8216;s upcoming album. Tons of construction-paper (and coffee) later, here we are releasing the music video online. It[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104,100,3],"tags":[138,46,135,64,109,123,121,122,99,127,107,137,136,134,108,124,133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}