Does anyone know how to make a stop animation movie?

Question by L132U132A132P: Does anyone know how to make a stop animation movie?
does anyone know how to make a stop animation movie with voice on a mac OSx operating system but still use imovie HD ?

Best answer:

Answer by Dead End
For any specific questions, you should check out http://www.stopmotionanimation.com
It’s a message board filled with stop motion animators helping eachother out. They even have a handbook section that has basic answers and info on a variety of stop motion topics (armatures, sets, cameras, etc)

http://www.stopmotionanimation.com/handbook/

AnimateClay.com also has some good beginner tutorials:

http://www.animateclay.com/index.php?name=Sections&req=listarticles&secid=3

Don’t use iMovie to actually shoot or compile your animation images together. You should use a program specifically designed for stop-motion animation purposes to actually compile your movie, then edit your larger clips afterwards in a video editing program like iMovie. An animation program will make it easier to arrange, re-arrange, add and delete single frames. Typically, playing around with multiple single frames is kind of difficult and bothersome in video editors since they weren’t designed with frame by frame animation as a primary function in mind.

If you’re on a Mac use either Framethief or FramebyFrame, both or which are free.

http://www.framethief.com/

http://web.mac.com/philipp.brendel/Software/FrameByFrame.html

With either of these programs you can set the frame rate of your video, and how long each image lasts onscreen (even as little as one frame).
This amount of control will help your stop-motion look less slow and less choppy. After exporting your images as video files, you can then take these files into a video editor like iMovie HD and put your final film together.

If you need more help or info, let me know.

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