I animated a focus pull using DragonFrame and my Canon 7D this weekend. It is the first time I have done this with this set up. It went very smoothly except at the end of the night when I tried to put my camera away. Knowing I would be touching the camera for every frame, I had tightened it to the tripod so tightly that I could not unscrew the bolt! I struggled with it for a long time before I finally got it loose.
The focus pull clip is up on Vimeo. Check it out!
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The character animation is shot on twos, meaning that two frames are taken of each move, and the focus pull is shot on ones, meaning that there is a move on every frame taken. Shooting the focus pull on ones makes is very smooth.
This character has just woken from a dream of dolls dancing to see that the seed has sprouted.
Christiane Cegavske 