RE: The coolest job I ever had! || Stop-Motion Movies Studio
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My day job, I'm a data analyst. The first "Real" job I had after university was working at the museum's art lab, doing macro photography of their insect collection for archival purposes so they wouldn't need to send their specimens to other institutions for further study / comparison.
It was good fun.
Probably just as tedious as this stop motion stuff. We'd take 15-30 exposures at different focus levels to get an image that had each and every part of the insect in focus, using a stepper motor, and a table bolted to both the floor and wall to ensure no vibrations.
I wrote a few Photoshop actions to automate the post processing of the images, while the focus-stacker hardware had software to stitch all the focal ranges together.
It was a job I got on account of the fact that I didn't drink coffee and had steady hands to handle the specimens (which in animal classification) are called holotypes (the first example used to classify the species).
Not where I got my username from, though!
That's really interesting! And for the first job, that sounds great!
Those pictures must have been marvellous - to be able to count each hair on the leg! I bet it was laborious, but sill - sounds fun!
Yeah, I have steady hands more or less, but not enough to be an animator. Not sure if it is actually coffee is the problem. One of the best animators we had(and he was in teams who won Oscars for animations) was... an alcoholic. Between work he would sleep in stuff room with his mouth open, or laying in random places. But when it has been time to shoot - he was like a statue. Was absolutely incredible:)
People function in strange ways :)
I got to say I was feeling bad for him everyday and in the same time I was admiring his work. He was not the fastest animator ever but all his shots required minimum postproduction. Sometimes they just had to remove the rigs, and that was it. He was actually the master of it:)
I've never met anyone who I could describe in that way in any workplace I've been involved in. Perhaps I have been working in the wrong places. :D
There were many strange characters there. I felt there nearly translucent next those colourful individuals:) Every single day was an adventure :D