Blog - Stop Motion Animation Made Easy

2008-05-16 21:00:06

How to Make Stop-Motion Video Shorts with Your Digital Camera
Stop-motion animation is one of the simplest, most fun animation techniques.
Mix equal parts digital camera, computer, and imagination (you've got all three), and you're on your way.
Although flashier computer-generated animation is in vogue,
stop-motion has a rich heritage of its own. After all, who doesn't love
the Gumby shorts of the 50s and 60s, Gumby's comeback in the mid-90s
(you know you've arrived when you're a spokescharacter for the Library
of Congress!), and the ever-popular Wallace and Gromit?
And it's not limited to claymation, either--Tim Burton used stop-motion and puppets to create The Nightmare Before Christmas , and Comedy Central's Robot Chicken uses stop-motion with action figures and toy props.
You can use just about anything in your stop-motion animation, and
thanks to digital cameras and computers, creating one is now super easy.
There are many ways to go about shooting, editing and finalizing
a stop-motion short; we'll be covering the simplest. Don't be
discouraged by the number of steps! It's much easier than it first
appears.
See the step-by-step guide at Photojojo.com.
An example video.


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