My daughter, Shreya, had some friends over yesterday and they created a short stop-motion animation film with the new setup in our basement. Enjoy
More videos made with my kids can be seen by clicking here.
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Excellent points, I completely agree on that…
Your daughter is really creative.I liked her film.
Great information shared. Well done.
ya, I would like to try with my middle school technology class.
We used a digital video camera connected to a MacBook laptop running iStopMotion software. Final editing (and sound) was done using iMovie. I plan to post a picture of the setup in day or so.
Could you explain the hardware and software used to create this? I would like to try with my middle school technology class.
Cool! One suggestion…. Are you setting focus, exposure, aperture and everything manually? It looks like it may be changing from frame to frame, and might look better if it stayed locked (manually).
This was created by 5 different girls yelling, screaming, shrieking, shaking, all the while. It is a wonder anything was in focus at all 🙂
And given this was the first time ever doing something like this (for most of them) I am amazing anything showed up at all 🙂