ReelPaint

ReelPaint lets you make film without a camera. Paint, splash, scratch and stamp straight onto a virtual strip of 16mm film, then play it back and watch your marks and gestures move. It follows the tradition of Len Lye and Oskar Fischinger, who made films by painting directly on film stock. Use the paint tools for cameraless films, then switch to Vector and use stencils and stamps for bold, flat, graphic looks in the spirit of Saul Bass. All the mess of cameraless film, none of the clean-up. Share what you make @reel.paint PAINT ON FILM Brushes, dye, water, air, marker, streaks and mist that layer and darken where they overlap, like ink on clear film Scratch into the film with white lines Stamps, letters and patterns that repeat across frames, fixed, boiling or drifting 12 stamp typefaces, from typewriter to wood type, or draw your own stamp Shapes you can edit: rectangles, ellipses and…