Stop Motion Animation“That is a Camera”

Overview • Introduction

• What is Stop Motion Animation?

• Story & Storyboarding

• Character Design

• Environment Design

• Props Design

• Frame Capture Advice

• Process of Making the Animation

• Conclusion

Introduction

What is Stop Motion Animation?

• Stop-Motion Animation is the process of piecing together a series of photographs into a moving picture.

Examples of animating with clay/plasticine include:

• Wallace and Gromit

• Chicken Run

• Morph

• Creature Comforts

Examples of animating with puppets include:

• Fantastic Mr. Fox

• Coraline

• Corpse Bride

• The Nightmare Before Christmas

• James and the Giant Peach

Story

• The Beginning (Intro)

• The Middle (Climax)

• The Ending.

Storyboarding

• A method of organising your stop-motion animation sequence(s) in a graphical way.

• A great way of preparing yourself for an animation.

That is a Camera

Scene 1- In the morning, the main

character, Little Apple is singing happily

and walking along the pathway of park.

Scene 2- When Little Apple walks around the

water fountain which is at the centre of park,

she discovers something that she has never

seen it before.

Scene 3- Because of her curiosity, Little Apple

stops walking and go around the thing. She

looks at the thing carefully, and she wants to

know what the thing is.

Scene 4- Finally, Little Apple press a button

accidentally, and flash comes out from the

thing. The flash scared her. Little Apple saw

that the water fountain was on the screen of

the thing.

Scene 5- Little Apple started playing with the

thing that she discovered. On the other hand,

the other character, Little Carrot is walking

toward her with a balloon.

Scene 6- Little Apple is playing happily with

the thing, and not realize that Little Carrot is

walking toward her. As Little Apple press the

button, Little Carrot was in front of the thing.

Scene 7- The flash from the thing scared Little

Carrot and Little Carrot was fainting. The balloon is

flied away. Little Apple looked at Little Carrot

strangely and Little Apple is very confused.

Character Design

• contain the following view for each character:

• Full-frontal view

• Left-side view

• Right-side view

• Facial expressions

• Size comparison

Environment Design

• Can be 2D or 3D.

• Must design everything in detail.

Props Design

• Props?

• Anything that is going to be part of the animation• E.g. Camera, Water Fountain

• Must design everything in detail.

Frame Capture Advice

• Good results with 15 frames per second.

• Smooth results with 20 frames per second.

• 12 frames per one second is the easiest frame rate to get a reasonably good animation.

What you need to make an animation

Camera or USB webcam

Computer

Some materials that you will animate

Process of Making the Animation

1. Shoot Your Animation

2. Combine your photos

• iPhoto or iMovie for mac

• Adobe Flash

• Windows Movie Maker

3. Final Touches: Music

• background music

• camera sound

• water fountain sound

Conclusion

References

• http://www.stopmotionanimation.com/

• http://www.stopmotionguide.com/

• http://www.stormthecastle.com/stop-motion-animation/how-to-

make-animation.htm

• http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/stop-motion-digital-camera/