Well, here’s a first–and only marginally successful–attempt to use my webcam for something other than Skyping with relatives. I clipped the thing to my above-drafting table track lights and tried to do a time lapse video of my inking a page from Oyster War. The camera’s too far away by a factor of about two and the glare from the lights is pretty bad, but I suppose it’s worth looking at.
I captured the images every 3 seconds using a simple (and free) piece of software called Perios, which captures an image at an interval you specify and writes it as an individual JPG. Perios has a built-in AVI exporter, but I didn’t like that it only worked on a currently filming project, so I used PhotoLapse to assemble the files into a AVI movie. I wound up dropping every other frame, so what’s left is a three minute video of a six hour inking process. Here’s the video, followed by a scan of the inked page:
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