Death blow sequence done !

Pheww...
At last, the final sequence is meeting my quality standards.  I'm very happy to achieved it the first time.
- 77 pictures
- 3 seconds of video on 1's (24 frames per seconds)
- 2 sessions of shooting on two different days
- 6 hours of work animating that

Everything goes as expected (hopefully).  As i thought, animating a big puppet is way easier than animating a small one.

In order to simulate the lightning coming from the machine gun, i worked with three different lightning setups. 

2 lights

1 light

 

No light

Repeating these 3 lightning setups did a good job.

Here's my lighning setup.  The light no.1 is a LED desk lamp with foil on it to reduce the light that come out of it.  The light no.2 is a little and single LED light.

As an awared animator, i taped down the camera's tripod and the electric cables that were on my way.

Here are some pictures that shows how small is my shooting room.

The tied-downs also worked perfectly.

Oh i almost forgot, the sequence...
Here's the link.  http://vimeo.com/26750281
There's a password that must be entered and all the people who submited (or will) pictures for the wallpapers contest will receive it by email.

Enjoy !