Homemade Stop Motion Animations
- 1). Set up the first scene, either with the figurines you'll be moving or with your actors. Make sure you have adequate lighting for your picture.
- 2). Set up your camera on its tripod so that you can see everything.
- 3). Lock the tripod in place.
- 4). Take a picture of the scene.
- 5). Move the scene subject very slightly as it would evolve if it were moving at a normal pace. To get a fully realistic appearance, you will need to take 24 pictures for what would amount to one second of movement. However, 5 or 10 pictures for every second of action will still make sense and make the film truly look like stop motion, almost like a flip-book.
- 6). Upload all the files that will make up your film to the computer.
- 7). Drag the clips in order into the video-editing application of your choice, such as iMovie or Windows Movie Maker. You could also use animated GIF-creating applications for short stop-motion animations.
- 8). Set the display time for each clip in the video-editing application. Make the clips display for the right amount of time so that it plays at however many frames per second you had in mind when shooting.
- 9). Export the film either as an .mp4, .mov, .gif or other movie/animation type.
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