Re: [videoblogging] Re: how to do stop motion
I've tried a few different programs for stop motion, and they're all very similar. Honestly, as long as they have onion-skinning you're golden, and every one I've used has that feature. The biggest challenge with this stuff is patience. One thing that helped me out immensely was this article about basic animation principles: http://www.stopmotionanimation.com/handbook/9.htm The biggest, most helpful tip for me was #5: Ease-In Ease-Out. Also alternately known as *Slow-in* and *Slow-out*, or *Acceleration* and * Deceleration*. Whatever you call it, it refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually. Example; a man is going to sprint (he got tired of playing ball I guess, or maybe he hit a home run). He doesn't just hit full speed instantly and then stop on a dime - unless he's the Roadrunner! He'll build up speed gradually and then slow down gradually at the end. The same applies to any object set in motion... a car, a bird, or even a bouncing ball. Applied to stop motion, this means when something is moving from one place to another, its first few movements should cover very short distances, grow incrementally bigger, then incrementally smaller again as it reaches it's stopping point, ending up with a nearly unnoticeable movement before it completely stops. Here's my latest attempt at this frustrating but incredibly fun art form (may not be safe for work, depending on where you work): *http://tinyurl.com/23bfur *Good luck, AQ On 3/15/07, Brad Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Virtualdub, for your windows pc, will load frames, play and save them as avi movies. You just need to name them like picture0001.jpg, picture0002.jpeg, etc, and load them into virtualdub. So I read in an unofficial virtualdub forum. Here somewhere... http://forums.virtualdub.org/ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this has been dicussed before and I know how to do it with a video camera, but I think that there is a way to take digital still and then combine them to create stop motion as well. Is that correct? and if so could someone please point me into the right direction? I am on a PC not a mac. Thanks! Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Adam Quirk Wreck Salvage 551.208.4644 Brooklyn, NY http://wreckandsalvage.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: how to do stop motion
I saw an interesting intro to stop-motion principles, kit and software by an Aussie guy on YouTube called Blunty3000 who won a competition there for stop motion. He uses lego. Quite cool. He's put a whole bunch of stuff up there, but this is his Stop Motion 101: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xib6c7UgKbI Rupert http://www.fatgirlinohio.org http://www.crowdabout.us/fatgirlinohio/myshow/ On 14 Mar 2007, at 04:17, missbhavens1969 wrote: Heath, does your video camera take stills? I just do what Schlomo said: string a whole mess of stills together. And I mean a whhhole mess of them. This was a lot easier to do before there was a cat in the house...she gets off on disturbing objects on tables. Takes forever. But the end result is so fun! I'm psyched about the software suggestions. It never occured to me there was software for it. I'm duncey that way. Can't wait to see what you come up with (will it involve action figures? Hmmm?) Bekah -- http://www.missbhavens.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this has been dicussed before and I know how to do it with a video camera, but I think that there is a way to take digital still and then combine them to create stop motion as well. Is that correct? and if so could someone please point me into the right direction? I am on a PC not a mac. Thanks! Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: how to do stop motion
framethief? it's quite good. On 3/14/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw an interesting intro to stop-motion principles, kit and software by an Aussie guy on YouTube called Blunty3000 who won a competition there for stop motion. He uses lego. Quite cool. He's put a whole bunch of stuff up there, but this is his Stop Motion 101: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xib6c7UgKbI Rupert http://www.fatgirlinohio.org http://www.crowdabout.us/fatgirlinohio/myshow/ On 14 Mar 2007, at 04:17, missbhavens1969 wrote: Heath, does your video camera take stills? I just do what Schlomo said: string a whole mess of stills together. And I mean a whhhole mess of them. This was a lot easier to do before there was a cat in the house...she gets off on disturbing objects on tables. Takes forever. But the end result is so fun! I'm psyched about the software suggestions. It never occured to me there was software for it. I'm duncey that way. Can't wait to see what you come up with (will it involve action figures? Hmmm?) Bekah -- http://www.missbhavens.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this has been dicussed before and I know how to do it with a video camera, but I think that there is a way to take digital still and then combine them to create stop motion as well. Is that correct? and if so could someone please point me into the right direction? I am on a PC not a mac. Thanks! Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] trine.blogs.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: how to do stop motion
I know you can do this for free on a PC with Windows Movie Maker. Here are two short experiments I did last year: http://davidleeking.com/etc/2006/07/ball-and-hand-another-animation-test.html and http://davidleeking.com/etc/2006/07/testing-stop-motion-animation.html Both used Windows Movie Maker - for the images, I just took them with a cheapo web cam, then dropped them in, in order, on the movie's timeline. And somewhere, there was a way to make each image about 1 10th of a sec or so - so the animation could happen (I think I googled it to figure it out). Hope this helps! David On 13 Mar 2007 12:11:56 -0700, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theres loads of dedicated software to do that, this list is a starting point, some of its freeware: http://www.stopmotionworks.com/stopmosoftwr.htm Alternatively some video editing packages probably have a feature to import pictures. For this to be a nice solution they need to enable you to select a whole directory of pics, read them in the right order, and for you to specify how many videof rames of time each picture takes up. What sort of framerates are people finding acceptable for this sort of thing? As even a small increase in actual framerate will vastly increase the time it takes you to do the animation in the first place, but will obviously look smoother. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this has been dicussed before and I know how to do it with a video camera, but I think that there is a way to take digital still and then combine them to create stop motion as well. Is that correct? and if so could someone please point me into the right direction? I am on a PC not a mac. Thanks! Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com -- David King davidleeking.com - blog http://davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
