This is the animation camera stand I'm building at home. I'm sure the 5 people who read this already know I bought a huge copy stand about 6 years ago for testing animation for the 3 Farms commercial. I used it to shoot most of scenes in Lighthouses with my Cannon G9. Anyway, now I am determined to make it into a full working Bolex camera stand. So I went to Home Depot last night and bought lots of pipes, tees, couplings, elbows, and flanges to build the legs and arms. I have some pictures of my work in progress which I will post when I find my camera's usb connector.
The copy stand used to look like this before I disassembled it.
Ok, I found my USB plug. Now I don't have to scan all my animation tests at work anymore. Here is the table in progress...
Tees, nipple pipes and couplings. This sort of made me think of the chess set my dad build entirely out of nuts, bolts and screws. That was pretty awesome.
Butch genius. Putting it together wasn't so hard but tightening it make it level was horrible.
here are the arms which I haven't attached yet.
This is what it looks like so far. Oh yeah please excuse the room. I haven't yet settled in and with all my money going toward my Habit I don't think it will happen anytime soon. By Habit I mean spending lots of money on rent, some food, and making traditionally animated expensive films without the intention of selling them. Perhaps that should go in my grant proposals?
