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Stop Motion questions.....

05-17-2008, 06:25 PM	#1
ender098 Veteran Offline --> Posts: 3,665 --> Join Date: Dec 2005	Stop Motion questions..... Has anyone on here done Stop Motion? What kind of Camcorder do you use? Does it have a feature you can use for Stop motion? Can someone post a how to dealing with the Camera Aspect? I wanna do Stop motion stuff, but I need to find out HOW you do it. It is a feature of the cam? Is it difficult? any help is appreciated!

05-17-2008, 07:19 PM	#2
Sonneilon aka 'Paul WS Anderson' ;) Offline --> Posts: 7,751 --> Join Date: Jul 2005	Isn't stop motion actually done with a regular camera or can be done? It's more about shooting -blank- amount of pictures for 1 second of animation. I think the old GI Joe cartoon and cartoons in general were around 30-35 frames per second whereas when Transformers the Movie came out, they actually shot around 45 frames/sec, iirc. Now, video games do what, 60FPS? The more frames, the smoother the action. It'll all be done on the movie-making program on the computer in the end, right?

05-17-2008, 07:58 PM	#3
Outrider It's been a great ride! Offline --> Posts: 14,302 --> Join Date: Jun 2005	Frank, check out the Firefly video on this page ("A bad day for Firefly", about half way down). It's only basic, but I made it with a simple webcam years ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9780984@N03/page3/ __________________ "The future's uncertain and the end is always near." - The Doors "Roadhouse Blues". Last edited by Outrider : 05-17-2008 at 08:08 PM.

05-18-2008, 09:25 AM

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Frank, check out the Firefly video on this page ("A bad day for Firefly", about half way down). It's only basic, but I made it with a simple webcam years ago:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9780984@N03/page3/

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05-18-2008, 11:33 AM

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How you did it?

The webcam I had then had a stop motion function, whereby it would automatically coposite all of the still images into a movie. Unfortunately when I switched from Windows 98 to XP, that function ceased to work.

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05-18-2008, 03:36 PM	#6
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05-17-2008, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Sonneilon

Isn't stop motion actually done with a regular camera or can be done? It's more about shooting -blank- amount of pictures for 1 second of animation. I think the old GI Joe cartoon and cartoons in general were around 30-35 frames per second whereas when Transformers the Movie came out, they actually shot around 45 frames/sec, iirc. Now, video games do what, 60FPS? The more frames, the smoother the action.

It'll all be done on the movie-making program on the computer in the end, right?

I know that much....it's like the old "Stereographs" of the early 20th Century. They were just a series of pictures that flipped quickly. The question is, can you make Stop motion on a camcorder? Is there a way to make a film shot by shot?