Laser Animation Flipbook

Step 4: Photo Session

Make your room as dark as possible, arrange everything and follow these instructions:

1. With lights on, focus your camera, which stands on a tripod, and turn auto-focus off, it has no function in the dark.
2. Find the first frame with your laser pointer and remember how it looks.
3. Make a photo with the lens opened for about 20 seconds, depending on your animation.
4. Trace the picture with the laser pointer carefully. My hand had a great talent in covering what I was drawing.
5. Observe the result and delete it if it's crappy, or you will later  have difficulties to sort the frames.
6. Move on to the next frame and repeat step 2-5.