Transformers Stopmotion compilation

[@BotBenderOrinj]

I'm 30% in right now and the details, nuances, choreography, and storyboarding for all of them is just insane!

[@water_bottle4233]

Hey ive seen you before

[@CardboardBots]

There's a lot of improv here.

[@michaelpapp5518]

Truth. Low key one of my favorite KZbin animators.

[@CardboardBots]

@@michaelpapp5518 high key thanks for the praise

[@michaelpapp5518]

@@CardboardBotsthanks for the content! It helps me feel content. Ha ha!

[@originaluddite]

Plasticine - the original transforming toy. :)

[@CardboardBots]

Claymation for the win!

[@bredmond812]

I legit feel pain and concern whenever a bot gets crashed into by another bot.

[@CardboardBots]

I feel your pain, especially when I forget a crash is going to happen.

[@ultramaximusreviews]

Good lord - the flickering of the Huffers and other figures... that had to take FOREVER! LOL you can tell the comments from people who also do stop motions 😁

[@CardboardBots]

You get it.

[@THE14THPRIME229]

WOW. Just … WOW. I am in tears over how AWESOME this is . Sidenote - my wife is like This is amazing .

[@CardboardBots]

Tell your wife, that she is amazing! You're pretty awesome too. But don't let it go to your head.

[@penge01313]

Now this is tanfastic! 14.5 minutes if CB stop-motion goodness. 👍🏻 I’m already looking forward to your next video. 😁

[@CardboardBots]

Ha ha!. Thanks. The next review is close to completion, but it won't be as intense as this.

[@GRiNDWiZARD187]

not bad at all , very smooth animations my dude

[@CardboardBots]

Thanks. My next video will feature some deliberately janky animation to balance it out.

[@GRiNDWiZARD187]

@@CardboardBots only in the best Janky ok!

[@donutimusprimal3405]

Man I really wish I had done more of your daily stop motion challenge, just not easy to have the time to do stop motion consecutively every day

[@CardboardBots]

I think you did alright trying it out. It was a bigger task than I could pull off. I literally did mot have the time to do it on the level of production that I was doing. Each animation was about 2 hours of work. Talk about a grind!

[@TheLazyEyebrow]

So how many frames taken total?

[@CardboardBots]

I gave no idea. More than 9. Less than 900,000.

[@heancio2]

TheLazyEyebrow: So how many frames taken total? . CardboardBots: yes

[@davidm4566]

I thought of you, Lazy Eyebrow, when he had the trains.

[@Skelevision1]

Soundwave review 👀

[@CardboardBots]

That would be fun

[@THE14THPRIME229]

Ok… Thank you . Running to my studio

[@ultramaximusreviews]

I always love your sound effects. And very clean lighting.

[@CardboardBots]

Thank you so much. I work hard on sound effects. They help sell even the poorest of my animations. Lighting is something that I'm still struggling with. I think I can do better on lighting, but I've kinda just "set it and forget it" for a long time. I'd like to use soft boxes or diffusers in the future. To help eliminate glare off shiny plastic surfaces.

[@KeejTV]

14 minutes of quality

[@CardboardBots]

Tanks!

[@THE14THPRIME229]

Where are my pannnnts😂😂😂😂

[@michaelpapp5518]

6:19 accurate.

[@CardboardBots]

Shazam!

[@KensToyCorner]

I enjoyed that way too much. I want more! Great job man

[@CardboardBots]

You are too kind. Thank you so much. I'm working on something new right now. Just taking a break to say thanks.

[@younglinc9950]

Always amazing

[@CardboardBots]

No, you are.

[@grimmstudios4041]

Amazing animations and car go boom into frenzy

[@CardboardBots]

Thanks. Wait a minute... Frenzy does not appear in this video.

[@Crasher1982]

Wonderful job. I can't imagine the work it takes to make 14 mins, one guy told me it took 4 hours to make just two mins.

[@CardboardBots]

This project easily took over 200 hours.

[@Crasher1982]

@@CardboardBots Ay caramba! 200! Well I appreciate you taking 200 hours of your time - a lot of effort - to make this for us. I love stop motion. Appreciate also the effort it takes to create it.

[@michaelpapp5518]

8:49 Have you ever had to restart an animation because the cardboard box background broke mid filming?

[@CardboardBots]

Good question. I can't recall having to restart a shoot because of cardboard stage failure. Early on, I might have had to reassembly it because I put something off-balance. Nowadays, it's very sturdy.

[@michaelpapp5518]

@@CardboardBots what do you do to support your backgrounds?

[@CardboardBots]

@michaelpapp5518 I built a very sturdy and tall work bench out of 2x4 lumber. Plywood acts as a storage shelf underneath, and I have a repurposed kitchen countertop as the top surface. Cardboard is taped to the wall as a background and taped to the countertop surface. My old community posts might have photographs of my work bench.

[@OfficialTransformers]

Great Job as usual 🎬🎬🎬‼️‼️

[@CardboardBots]

Thank you, my man

[@TTMMH42]

Fantastic compilation. I hope you don't mind me studying your techniques.

[@CardboardBots]

Take techniques freely. Anything you can take away from these animations is more than fine. I don't really use camera movements but I've seen you experiment with them. My common techniques include: - use of sound effects - reseting the stage with subject slides or crashes - a bit of simplified camera shake to help sell hits - way too much subject spinning - step by step transformations for instructional purposes - quick transformation for fun - letting a "weight" bounce (see Buggyman turn into car and bounce a bit when he hits the ground) - show scale, it's hard to tell the scale of a legends scale or a leader scale if the neutral stage has no reference for comparison. That's partly why I show my hands

[@TTMMH42]

@@CardboardBots back in the day (pre KZbin) I used to do this stuff with a friend he worked the camera and did such an amazing job with camera shakes and bumps. I'm to lazy and have so little space to work in but I have been trying to work in some camera moves. It's not always successful. We had a montra of "if the figure falls just change the camera angle" lol. Now I do it solo on this channel ,and very low tech, but I have to point out I really admire how smooth your animation is, especially on little things like getting a figure to stand up it's those transitional shots of them balancing between sitting and standing that are so fricken hard, also damn good lighting I need to work on that.

[@CardboardBots]

@@TTMMH42 Good tip about changing the the camera angle after a figure fall. I'll have to remember that. Sometimes what I do if I leave a figure in a pose at the end of a session, at the beginning of a new session I might zoom in using the camera (or in post) to cover any change in lighting or any movement in the stage. As for transitional shots and balance, I often build up behind the figure using sticky tack or I use something heavy like a double-A battery + sticky tack if I need extra weight some where. Lot's of experimentation to figure out the best why to support a transition and how to hide support from the camera.

[@davidm4566]

I hear some Mega Man music in the background

[@CardboardBots]

Yes a little bit for ambience

[@spurfan76]

Nice video but I disagree on the comment about Earthrise Prime being the best ever made.....

[@CardboardBots]

MP-10 disagreed too. I found his argument to br compelling.

[@THE14THPRIME229]

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@michaelpapp5518]

8:16 unpleasant. No, thank you.

[@CardboardBots]

The fish heads skit always brings a smile to my face

[@michaelpapp5518]

@@CardboardBots ha ha! You monster! I blame my future nightmares on you, sir.

[@heancio2]

Siege Optimus Prime >>> EarthRise Mas o vídeo foi ótimo

[@CardboardBots]

I got the Siege version long after I got the Earthrise one. I found myself playing with the Siege one more often.

[@Help_me682]

Great animation as usual👍

[@CardboardBots]

Thanks very much. It was all older stuff, reassembled in a new form factor.