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Josh Goodrich and David Hill of Santa Maria give us a behind the scenes peek of their J&B ampersand logo set up. We asked them to tell us how Dragon Stop Motion was used in the process.

Dave and Josh:

Dragon software was very easy to set up with the camera we used, a Nikon D90. It also let us go back and preview/edit our footage, which was very important to us, for our amount of experience. The fact that the prop had to move on a turntable was the biggest technical challenge, so to be able to see it working sped up our shooting process.

We started out with a few animation tests and then went right into shooting the final piece. We had two full days dedicated for the shoot and a week afterward for post. The planning part was very involved because everything had to be blocked out perfectly and in the right order. The sculpture was built by set builder Andy Byers, which came out exactly how it was imagined.

Big thank-you to Josh and David for sharing!

P.S. Dragon Stop Motion is the only stop motion system to pull in the live view from Nikon cameras like the D90. You just plug the Nikon D90 into the computer with one USB cable and you are ready to shoot.