WHAT IS STOP MOTION?
A technique that artists create the appearance of motion by displaying a series of still photographs in succession repeatedly stopped and started.The basic process of animation involves taking a photograph of your objects or characters, moving them slightly, and taking another photograph. Playing back the images consecutively, the objects or characters appear to move on their own.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF STOP MOTION
EVERY DAY OBJECTSLook around you! Any object that can be moved can be used to make a stop motion. This example of an everyday object stop motion used objects around the house to create an awesome film!
NEED : Any Objects Around You! |
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WHITE BOARD / CHALK BOARD You can create some very basic stop motion with this method. However if you are a good artist then the sky is the limit as shown. The method is open to all ages which make it a great idea for stop motion beginners.
NEED : Whiteboard and Whiteboard Markers OR Chalkboard and Chalk |
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PAPER CUT OUTIt combines a real arts and crafts feel and the stop motion animation approach to great effect. You can either draw shapes or cut images from magazines to create an animated story.
NEED : Constuction Paper and Scissors |
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LEGOThere is no end to the animation ideas that can be found out there for this particular format. These are creative and a relatively easy place to start. The good thing about LEGO is that you have both your set and characters ready made for you to use!
NEED : Legos |
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CLAYThere are lots of great ideas within the Claymation animation art form. Simple shapes can be used to morph into other shapes in an artistic and entertaining manner.
NEED : Clay or Play-Doh |
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STICKY NOTESAwesome and creative way to creating stop motion!
NEED : STICKY NOTES |
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HUMANEven though “humans” are animate by nature you can use your friends to create stop motions. Simply asking your subject to take small movements between frame snapshots can give some really interesting results.
NEED : People |
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TIMELAPSETimelapse is in interesting one and quiet different from the others. In this form of stop motion you can simply set your computer / camera to take snapshots and equally spaced intervals over “normally” long period of time to capture things in nature that happen by themselves.
NEED : An Object / Nature that Changes on its own... |
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