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I wanted to see if I could use leaves for 16mm direct animation. 🎞️

I got some foliage from the area outside my studio. 🍁

And taped this onto 16mm film leader using clear splicing tape. ✂️

I ran the film through my Lego filmscanner. 📸

And there you have it, a Stan Brakhage-inspired found foliage film! 🦋

#directanimation #16mmfilm #analogfilm #filmmaking #filmart

I made a 16mm film scanner using Lego technic! 🎞️⚙️

The film is slowly pulled by a motor, passing the frames in front of a camera with a macro lens that I picked up at MPB for 60 euros. The rig itself sits on a glass plate from my fridge. It films constantly, capturing all the frames as a video. Then I asked Chat GPT to write me a Python script that selects the frames and only keeps those where the sprocket holes are perfectly aligned.

#16mm #filmscanner #directanimation #diyfilmscanner #lego