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• Stop Motion Animation Program
• Stop Motion Program For Mac

Stop Motion Programme Mac

StoryBoarding Software for Stop Motion Animation

Get Stop Motion Studio, the most powerful animation studio ever designed for a Mac. Want to create movies like Wallace and Gromit or those groovy Lego shorts on YouTube? Then this is the app you’ve got to add to your collection.

Browse the listing above and read the review of the stop motion and related animation software to choose the best stop motion animation software to create the best claymation brickfilm movies possible!

I came across this interesting interview with Justin Segal on youtube. I like the snippets of animation I have seen of his so I have transcribed what he had to say here for your interest. You should check out AnimationMentor online also by the way.

My name is Justin Segal and I am an animator. I’ve wanted to be an animator almost since I can remember. I was probably five. I saw King Kong and some Harry Haussen movies and I just started to eat them for breakfast; I saw everything I could get my hands on and sometimes saw them over and over again. With friends, I would do little sculptures and we once set out to learn how to make armatures. So, I was thinking stop motion.

As it turned out, it was a longer journey than I thought. I went to film school and assumed I would be doing stop motion from that point on, and instead I had other opportunities. I went to Disney as an Imagineer designing theme parks. It took me a while before I said, “You know, it’s really important to chase your dream.” And I never let go of that original dream, which is why I came to Animation Mentor.

The process of creating a character is a really fun one and an interesting one – it’s different every time. You obviously start off with an idea and hopefully go off and really do some reference and think about…they encourage you to think about backstories for your character…things that aren’t even in the shot. What did he do before this? What does this horseshoe? What happens after? Just as you would do in a real world situation where your shot is part of a longer sequence and you really have to be thinking about the story of this character.

So, you want to do that and usually that triggers quite a few things. The process leads to sketching, which is always the beginning where everything starts. Everything you do gets thrown out for all your fellow students to look at, comment on, and give ideas back. There isn’t a single character that I didn’t try three or four different ways just in sketches to say, “Is this guy in prison? Is he a butcher? Is he a guy in a restaurant?” and really try to think about who this guy is. Then you get to the point where you’ve chosen somebody, hopefully, you get the photo and uptake the rig and say, “How do I turn this into that person?”

Animation Mentor is awesome in that it’s real world. The school is fantastic about breaking down those skills from the very, very smallest of skills that you have to start with and then slowly, like a snowball that gets larger as it rolls, adding on with each assignment exactly what you need to move forward and build on. It’s not separate skills; it’s always cumulative.

I think the way that the school is set up is perfect in terms of real world. The grading is tough. The deadlines are even tougher. But, the rewards are great. For people who are committed, they get a chance to check what they’re really going for and check their commitment to it and everybody is in it together, including the mentors with the students to get you there.

Animation Mentor has changed me in ways I can’t even begin to predict yet. It’s been, not just a test that I passed, but it’s opened my eyes to things that I had no idea about. It’s exciting and it changed me and I hope that this is what I do for the rest of my life.

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Stop-motion videos take several pictures and animate them in a movie format to show a progression from one moment to the next. Small business owners looking to provide video content for their websites can create stop-motion videos of their store throughout the day, quickly show a production process or create animations to sell a product or service. Most webcams provide this option provided you know how to use stop-motion video software and have a bit of creativity.

JellyCam

Start the JellyCam program. Add a picture for the opening screen by clicking on the 'Picture' icon and clicking the 'Browse For Pics' button to navigate to an image on your computer.

Click the 'Webcam' icon located on the left sidebar.

Stop Motion Animator Mac

Take automated images at a set interval by entering in the elapsed time in seconds in the box directly above the 'Timer' box. Alternatively, you can click the 'Take Picture' button to manually take each picture for the video. This provides a useful option if you need to manually reposition elements before taking each photo. To line up the previous picture with the current one, check the 'Onion Skinning' box. This provides you with an outline of the previous picture, making it possible to move objects into their original position and preventing any sudden movements from side-to-side in the final video.

Click the 'Save' option located in the top navigation bar. Name your project and then click the 'Save' button.

Select 'Create Video File' from the top menu. Name your video file and then click 'Create File.'

Locate the file using the link provided in the 'Create Video File' dialog box. If you wish, upload the file directly to YouTube by pasting the link into the 'Upload File' box located in your account.

Stop Motion Pro

Start the program. Click 'Settings,' then 'Capture Settings' and then click the 'Format' button. Enter your desired settings for the video size and leave the other settings on their defaults.

Select the 'View' menu and 'Settings Properties.' Adjust the sliders to change the picture. When satisfied with the picture, click 'Apply,' then 'Okay.'

Right-click on the blue 'capture' button to begin taking pictures. You can select how many frames per second you want in the 'FPS' drop-down menu. The more frames you take, the more fluid the stop-motion effects appear.

Click on any frames in the 'Editor' window that you don't want to keep and press the 'Delete' button.

Select the 'File' menu and click 'Save.' Save your file in the media format you want and select 'OK.'

FrameByFrame

Start the program. Select your webcam from the 'Video Input' drop-down menu.

Click the camera icon to take a picture of each frame. The images show up in the preview pane toward the bottom of the application.

Delete any frames you don't want by selecting the image with your mouse and clicking on the 'Scissors' icon.

Click the 'Play' button to preview your animation. If the animation moves too quickly, lower the total frames per second by adjusting the 'FPS' slider. You can speed the animation up to 30 frames-per-second, or slow it down to 1 frame-per-second.

Select 'File,' then 'Export' to export your movie. Enter a title in the 'Title' box and then click 'Export.'

Tips

• Set up your webcam in a stationary position directed at the object you wish to record. Avoid moving the webcam. If the webcam changes position, then the background will change. With stop-motion filming, you want to keep the background exactly the same to show only the changes to the ambient atmosphere, such as people, moving objects or lighting changes.
• If your webcam comes equipped with a face-tracking option, disable it in the preferences before recording.
• Use a solid support when placing your webcam. If the webcam moves, it reduces the effectiveness of the stop-motion animation. If the webcam is attached to your computer, consider getting an external keyboard and mouse, so that you don't have to touch your computer and accidentally move it.

Stop Motion Program For Mac

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Stop Motion Animation Program

Avery Martin holds a Bachelor of Music in opera performance and a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian studies. As a professional writer, she has written for Education.com, Samsung and IBM. Martin contributed English translations for a collection of Japanese poems by Misuzu Kaneko. She has worked as an educator in Japan, and she runs a private voice studio out of her home. She writes about education, music and travel.

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