NON-LW SUBJECT! I've got a techno phobic painter friend who wants to do some stop motion. She's already done some on her phone so she knows what she's getting into, a bit. There's several high end/high bux professional stuff (eg Dragonframe), but does anyone have recommendations for a MAC app that is 1) cheap as dirt or free, and 2) simple? She's really quite allergic to tech.
She does have a DLSR though: some system that allowed instant preview by connecting the camera to the computer and automagically appending the latest frame would be great. My daughter Sienna creates her stop motion shorts using an iPad. I think she uses the 'Pro' version of this program (I'll check tonight to be sure): I've played around with the app a little myself. It seems very capable and is a lot of fun. It even has a green screen feature. To make the setup usable and flexible, I got her the following gear: - $8 - $7 - $11 -$9 Along with the $10 app, the cost for this setup was $45.
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This doesn't include the iPad of course but I got a second hand iPad Retina for about $300, so total cost was around $345. I'm planning to post a review of the setup on our website soon but here's what I think in a nutshell: Flexi Tripod: not the best quality but okay for the price.
Here is a list of 6 best free stop motion software for Windows. Stop motion animation can be defined as an animation in which physical objects images are displayed in various positions frame by frame to create animation. To create this type of animation, you need to first capture images of physical objects in various positions and add those images together to create a stop animation.
I think two of the knuckles are a a little loose but Sienna says it works well enough for her. Bluetooth Shutter Release. Small and does what it's supposed to. Seems to work with any app that uses the shutter button. The odd thing with ours is that it used iOS mode at first but after a OS update, we had to switch it to Android mode to use it with the iPad. Still works though so no biggie.
These are three 'clip on' lenses and they work better than I expected for the price. Some distortion around the edges with Wide but can be cropped out out in editing. Fisheye is fun. I notice this kit is no longer available from the vendor I purchased from but it's still available elsewhere.
IPad/tablet Mount kit. Fully adjustable so it works with almost any tablet computer, including Surface. (I haven't tried it with my Cintiq Companion 2 but I think that might be too big for it.) Well designed and constructed for the price and mounts on a standard tripod screw. Considering this entire kit cost about $45, I really can't complain about any of it. It does the job and my daughter is very happy with it. It seems to work well enough that, after I finish my current projects, I want to make a short using this setup myself. If she wants to just see how it goes, wait for the next holiday and spend some long hours with the trial of dragonframe.
Animation has always been related to technique, she has to learn both the fundamentals of animation, and the tools. Instinct is nice, and straight ahead animation seems like something you can use by instinct, but believe me, it is not. You need to learn how to control things, and even if you do not animate with pose to pose you do need to understand it. Appending the latest frame is not enough for stop motion, you do need at least onionskin. My recommendation is instead of wasting time getting a cheap setup and trying some method which is not the real thing anyway use that time to read everything about the subject and figure out how to pay for some basic things.
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The software is the lesser of the expenses, the first thing she has to be aware of is how fast things broke while animating, wires broke and plasticines get dirty and crack. Stop motion is not a cheap art form. Get dragonframe and quality materials for a durable armature. Canon Rebel T2i. Excellent point about working yet not official.
Helping someone so.helpless in the face of tech is a bit of a trial. Also, I suspect once she's up and running she'll kick my., artistically speaking.Well it appears this canon is supported by istopmotion: Canon DSLRs General Information Starting with iStopMotion 3.5, we will support live view with selected Canon DSLR cameras. If you are looking to purchase a camera for use with iStopMotion, these are a great choice. Note: Even though we hand tested these cameras, please make sure you test your camera with a demo version of iStopMotion since your experience may vary with different firmware versions or special settings in the camera.
Canon EOS 40D Canon EOS 450D Canon EOS 550D Canon EOS 5D Mark II Canon EOS 5D Mark III Canon EOS 60D Canon EOS 60Da Canon EOS 700D Canon EOS 7D Canon Kiss X2 Canon Kiss X4 Canon Kiss X7i Canon Rebel T2i Canon Rebel T5i Canon Rebel XSi.
I feel for you. I've been searching for the exact thing for a long time now and istopmotion would be the only thing that ever came up.
But I finally found something today if you are still looking. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles on istopmotion, but all I needed it for was to capture frames from a dv camera (it doesn't work with a still camera) and put it together as a quicktime movie. It also does time lapse. It doesn't have the greatest interface, but once you figure it out it's not so bad to use.
It's called SingleFramer. This is excellent!
IMovie 09 seems to work with this - I just made a 'very crappy' 3 photo short, with each short showing for 0.1 seconds, then exported. So great, don't have to buy iStopMotion just yet! Thanks - going to make some digital fiction. Just made a stop animation short this weekend using iMovie 09 and my Fujifilm Finepix S6500fd - just import into iPhoto, then import into iMovie 09, adjust the shot length to around.01 or.02 secs, turn off Ken Burns effect and bingo! Export and done.
Just made a stop animation short this weekend using iMovie 09 and my Fujifilm Finepix S6500fd - just import into iPhoto, then import into iMovie 09, adjust the shot length to around.01 or.02 secs, turn off Ken Burns effect and bingo! Export and done. Excellent: I can not get the shot length to less than 4 frames. If I enter.01, 0:01 or anything like that it automatically adjusts it to 0:04 (or 0,01 depending on what format I choose in the settings). How did you manage to set it to 1 or 2 frames? I can not get the shot length to less than 4 frames.
If I enter.01, 0:01 or anything like that it automatically adjusts it to 0:04 (or 0,01 depending on what format I choose in the settings). How did you manage to set it to 1 or 2 frames?The number there is the number of seconds per image. The minimum value of 0:04 means 0.04 seconds per image. That would be the minimum value if your project is set to 24 frames per second because 1/24=.04.
You can't use more than one image in each frame of the video, so don't try to adjust it to less than that.