Stop Motion questions.....

[ender098]

Has anyone on here done Stop Motion? What kind of Camcorder do you use? Does it have a feature you can use for Stop motion? Can someone post a how to dealing with the Camera Aspect?

I wanna do Stop motion stuff, but I need to find out HOW you do it. It is a feature of the cam? Is it difficult? any help is appreciated!

[Sonneilon]

Isn't stop motion actually done with a regular camera or can be done? It's more about shooting -blank- amount of pictures for 1 second of animation. I think the old GI Joe cartoon and cartoons in general were around 30-35 frames per second whereas when Transformers the Movie came out, they actually shot around 45 frames/sec, iirc. Now, video games do what, 60FPS? The more frames, the smoother the action.

It'll all be done on the movie-making program on the computer in the end, right?

[Outrider]

Frank, check out the Firefly video on this page ("A bad day for Firefly", about half way down). It's only basic, but I made it with a simple webcam years ago:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9780984@N03/page3/

[ender098]

[QUOTE=Sonneilon]Isn't stop motion actually done with a regular camera or can be done? It's more about shooting -blank- amount of pictures for 1 second of animation. I think the old GI Joe cartoon and cartoons in general were around 30-35 frames per second whereas when Transformers the Movie came out, they actually shot around 45 frames/sec, iirc. Now, video games do what, 60FPS? The more frames, the smoother the action.

It'll all be done on the movie-making program on the computer in the end, right?[/QUOTE]

I know that much....it's like the old "Stereographs" of the early 20th Century. They were just a series of pictures that flipped quickly. The question is, can you make Stop motion on a camcorder? Is there a way to make a film shot by shot?

[Rambo]

How you did it?


[QUOTE=Outrider]Frank, check out the Firefly video on this page ("A bad day for Firefly", about half way down). It's only basic, but I made it with a simple webcam years ago:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9780984@N03/page3/[/QUOTE]

[Outrider]

[QUOTE=Rambo]How you did it?[/QUOTE]

The webcam I had then had a stop motion function, whereby it would automatically coposite all of the still images into a movie. Unfortunately when I switched from Windows 98 to XP, that function ceased to work.

[Urban Saboteur]

I used windows movie maker, and stop motion pro for mine. :D
http://www.stopmotionpro.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=119&Itemid=9

[Bayer]

The only stop motion I've ever done was with an 8mm film camera eons ago. then it was 20 frames per second and was dark because the light aperture on the camera was manual and I didn't know that. Suffice it to say, I had six reels of film with about 15 seconds of usable footage. Not happy then, yawning now. :rolleyes:

[Urban Saboteur]

Ok,
So you've probably guessed alot of your Stop motion work will depend on one key ingredient. LIGHT :o
I think alot that have experimented with doing stop motion realise the pain stakin process of putting together 20 seconds of footage and how difficult it all is. You do need lots of patience.. and practice.

As already quoted here, you need to shoot in frames/stages before putting it all together, whether you do this manually or using that program I posted above is up to you.

Because you'll be hooked up to the cpu at the time of running, i found that being indoors meant my camera didnt give me much light, so i had to use other ways of bringing in the light. I look back at my own experiments and find that for today's time they even look poor, but for what they are they gave me alot of fun.

[Rambo]

Frank,

for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4mRka1PP1g ;)