Re: [videoblogging] how to do stop motion
http://www.michaelverdi.com/video/parties.mov http://www.michaelverdi.com/video/fashion.mov These are two stop-motion pieces (first one NSFW) that Jen Simmons and I did by just shooting stills on a digital camera and setting the still frame duration to 1/10 of a second. Software with onionskinning would have made it much easier but it's not required. - Verdi On 3/15/07, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These have been some great tips and resources, Thanks everyone. Time..wish I had it in a bottle Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam Quirk, Wreck Salvage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 heathparks@ 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] -- http://michaelverdi.com http://spinxpress.com http://freevlog.org Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs
[videoblogging] how to do stop motion
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
Re: [videoblogging] how to do stop motion
Funny you mention stopmotion animation as I just finished adding it to the San Francisco SuperHappyVlogHouse page... http://superhappyvloghouse.pbwiki.com What editing software do you use? PC or Mac? With stills, just import them into your editor of choice and lower the length of each pic in your slide show...which is really what you are making. A sped up slide show. For mac, I use iStopMotion, which is a really easy program to make animations. I made a video for webshots about stopmotions. You can see it here: http://webshots.com/is/spotlight Its not really a tutorial, but kinda says what I've already written here. Good luck! They are not hard to make, just very time-consumming.. like most good things are:) Schlomo http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://mouthfulshow.com http://webshots.com/is/spotlight http://hatfactory.net http://evilvlog.com On 3/13/07, 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
Re: [videoblogging] how to do stop motion
http://www.stopmotionanimation.com/ That is the single best resource for stopmotion online. The Handbook section is great for starting out, and the Message Board section is great when you run into problems and need answers. My favorite pc stopmo framegrabber: http://www.stopmotionpro.com/ On 3/13/07, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny you mention stopmotion animation as I just finished adding it to the San Francisco SuperHappyVlogHouse page... http://superhappyvloghouse.pbwiki.com What editing software do you use? PC or Mac? With stills, just import them into your editor of choice and lower the length of each pic in your slide show...which is really what you are making. A sped up slide show. For mac, I use iStopMotion, which is a really easy program to make animations. I made a video for webshots about stopmotions. You can see it here: http://webshots.com/is/spotlight Its not really a tutorial, but kinda says what I've already written here. Good luck! They are not hard to make, just very time-consumming.. like most good things are:) Schlomo http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://mouthfulshow.com http://webshots.com/is/spotlight http://hatfactory.net http://evilvlog.com On 3/13/07, 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]
