Univengance, part 1
I got this avenging unicorn set for my birthday last year and when we got assigned a stop motion immediate wanted to do something with it. I chose to work with someone outside of the class because I had such a strong idea of what I wanted to do and couldn't imagine compromising.
The story line pretty much came out of the box. We drew the town scenery the night before and borrowed a friend's camera. The story was shot on my boyfriend's kitchen table with natural light. In retrospect we should have used artificial light because the room got darker and the shots are pretty inconsistent because of that.
I did the editing in iMovie, which is pretty intuitive. The song came to mind after the fact and magically fit perfectly with the timing - just some minor tweaking. I found the screams and car wreck sounds here. The galloping is included with iMovie.
I was pretty amazed at how well it came out - neither of us have any experience with stop motion. When I have time, I'd like to go back and clean up the shots. I also need to remove the wound from the mime in the shots before the impaling. A few people have noticed that after a few views.
I received the Good vs. Evil unicorns for Thanksgiving and am thinking of a sort of "Batman Begins" prequel, where we learn the reasoning behind the seemingly senseless tirade of the unicorn. The possibilities are endless ... :-)
