Bucket Fill Pixilation (Connectix QuickCam + MacPaint)
A little pixilation (stop-motion using people) made with an old Connectix QuickCam (the first commercially available webcam). The pictures were captured on a Macintosh IIci computer. The QuickCam is capable of capturing in greyscale, but I went with good old 1-bit mode (just blacks and whites and nothing in between). Besides just wanting a 1-bit aesthetic, it also allowed for some MacPaint graphics to be easily added to some of the frames, and for the movie to be displayed on older Macintosh machines that only support 1-bit color. Converting the QuickCam movie into MacPaint files was a gigantic headache though. Anyway, a program called MacMovies can compile a series of MacPaint files into a propriety video format, and play them fullscreen at up to 30 frames a second. That’s really amazing for 1985 technology.
The sound was made using ConcertWare (another ancient Mac program), some layered samples from Kid Pix, and some sounds I recorded.
I teach a stop-motion course through @dogbotic. When I give homework, I also do the assignments. This was what I did for the pixilation lesson.
Yes, I made a cardboard paint can icon.
#pixilation #quickcam #stopmotion