Creating My Card Animation

Today I watched Jan Svankmajer famous animation 'Darkness by Darkness' I found it very interesting and different because it had so much to take in. I then created my own short animation of some cards coming out of a tin and moving around and going back into the box. I tried to make it in the same style as Jan Svankmajer. I used I-stopmotion to create the animation, I took 12 frames per second and then I had 18 seconds worth of footage so thats 216 frames altogether. The technique to make a good animation is to take lots of frames and to move the object  slightly with each new frame. I then took the footage into final cut and added sound to the footage to make a more sense of realism. I then played around with the brightness and contrast to make it look more dark and old like Jan Svankmajer's style. It was quite hard to make the cards flip over because I couldn't do it in small steps, so it had to be one motion of a flip. But in the end it looked fine. Once I had recorded the sound I rendered the video and exported it as a quick time file. And then uploaded it to Vimeo, So here it is.