You might remember when we shared a cool way to make light-based art with an LED flashlight and a long camera exposure. Take it a step further by creating not just a light art picture, but an animated movie.


How to paint with light DIY web site Instructables details how to use your digital camera in a long exposure mode to paint… Read more

The process is simple in concept, but pretty ambitious in what you can create. How ambitious?

"Lucky" by All India Radio, is the viewable blood, sweat and tears of Australian based animation company ‘Dee Pee Studios'. It involves a painstaking animation technique, whereby the team paints in the air with glow sticks, frame after to frame to create entire sequences of animation, usually taking a whole night to shoot.


Check out the video below to see their light-art masterpiece:



Once you've shot your hundreds of light-art pictures, you'll need a way to animate them. You'll find plenty of simple animation tools online like previously reviewed PhotoLapse, more than adequate for turning your SD card's bounty into a glowing animated movie.

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