This brilliant 30 second animation was created by Ryan Cashman using long exposure photography. It features an animated character playing a keyboard – sketched into the scene using an LED keychain light.
Animated light paintings of a little piano player performing. Filmed at night with the lovely I-5 and San Diego skyline in the background…I wrote the music and recorded it first. The frames were photographed with a Canon Rebel using 20-30 second exposure time. I used a small green LED keychain light to draw each frame. Once all the positions were photographed they were strung together and synchronized to the music in After Effects…They were all shot at 20 second exposure time. The drawing took about 10 seconds to do each time, then I’d step out of the way and let myself disappear.
