Lynda - Getting Started with Stop Motion Animation

Stop-motion animation has a long history in Hollywood from films like King Kong to Coraline but it can also be a fun and relatively easy weekend art project. Whether youre a hobbyist looking for a creative outlet for yourself or your kids or a professional who wants to try stop motion this course will help you create your own short stop-motion films. Rich Harrington shows how to shoot the initial sequences with an iPad smartphone or DSLR camera and then assemble them into a short animated movie using iMovie and the iStopMotion app. Hell also show how to export your final project and get it ready to share or move into a professional or semiprofessional video editing application.

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Topics include:

What is stop motion and how does it work?

Stop motion vs. time lapse

Shooting stop motion with a tablet or smartphone

Lighting your environment

Directing the animation

Working with filters and color

Shooting in reverse