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]
