You might have watched a stop motion video without even realizing. Do you know what stop motion is?
Wikipedia defines it as an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. (also known as stop-action or frame-by-frame) In other words it is when you move an object slightly, take a picture, move it slightly again, take another picture, etc. Then edit it all together to make it look like the object is moving all by itself. You might have seen it used with clay for cartoons like Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.
This Deadline post-it stop motion video is pretty amazing. They have a behind the scenes video if you click the “more from” 3 months of planning, 4 days of shooting, and 6000+ post-it notes!
Smashing Magazine has a list of 50 Incredible Stop Motion Videos. My favorites from their list are:
More resources:
- There is an excellent article on Wiki-how on How to Create a Stop Motion Animation.
- eHow has a video series on How To Make Stop Motion Animation
- StormtheCastle.com has simple tutorials that are right up my alley.
Stop motion animation is a type of video that I’ve never tried, but I’m trying to think of a storyline now. Have you ever done stop motion animation? Leave me a link in the comments!
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