Teen Angel
A stop-motion charcoal animation I made for one of my classes.
Y’all. I have never been so acutely aware of the convenience, nay, necessity, of a tripod.
Like most people, I am not a professional videographer or photographer, and most of the pictures I take look more like an accidental freeze-frame than an intentionally captured moment. I’ve heard that a maker is only as good as their tools, and while my phone’s camera isn’t stellar, I think much of the roughness can still be attributed to user error. With needs like this, I never invested in a tripod. When this assignment was…assigned, my professor suggested we all get tripods, but I, being the broke and frugal (incidentally, this word makes me think of “fungal”, which has never struck me as particularly frugal, but I digress) person that I am I figured “I have a steady enough hand, and I can always use that fancy onion-skin feature to line up my pictures, I’ll be fine! I don’t need to spend money!”
Well, I passed the class. And I did save about $20. I also made a video so choppy it’s hard to watch, but I suppose that’s how we learn.
Moral of this story: get a tripod.
Be free,
Nah
