Stop motion animation guide
- 1. Stop Motion Animation Guide By luke biley
- 2. Equipment • For IStopMotion you need to have the application for your computer in order to use it. You also need a camera, either built in or to add to the top of the computer so the animation can be filmed.
- 3. Characters • For your character you need to firstly work out if you are drawing the animation, if your going to use whiteboard, if you going to use clay and or are you going to use Lego. • How will your characters work in your video, what sort of movement will they do.
- 4. Set • When doing an animation you need to work out if you are using a back drop or if you are going to use drawings to create the whole atmosphere of your video. • You can use the same materials that you are using for your characters if you wanted to or mix it around a bit.
- 5. Camera Shots/Movement • With stop motion you have to take individual pictures( 2 of each) to make sure you get a good view of the picture before and not make it too much of a quick movement. • The camera shots depend on what type of animation you are going for, if you were going for the one like the Kindle advert then you would have the camera up at a height
- 6. Editing • Move the overlay slide bar just beneath and to the right of the working animation window all the way to the left • Click the small round time display button below the overlay button to toggle between your frames and your time display • Select the small square button next to frame just beneath the time display button to bring up a clock that gives you a frame of reference for how far you are into your animated movie as you edit individual frames • Place your cursor over the series of gray boxes located beneath the working animation window and between the overlay button and the time button. This brings up individual frames within the movie time sequence. The frames are presented in a configuration like a smear of playing card. Select individual frames for editing with your cursor • Delete a frame. Click on the frame and then drag it to the trash can • Cut frames to change the order of the frame display. Click on a frame to edit. This brings up that frame in the animation working box. Select out • Past the cut frames back into the frame sequence at a new new location. Place the cursor at the point in the frame sequence you want the frame to appear then select paste
- 7. Sound • The sound you would use your animation depend on what type of theme you are going for • The music would be able to help you to workout what mood the advert is and the viewers would be able to know what mood you are going for.
- 8. Exporting • To export from iStopMotion you have to simply go to file then select export this will then give you the option of where to export the file to. Select desktop this will save the animation to the desktop.