Stop Motion Animation Project

Stop motion animation is all the rage. From using Legos to slips of paper, to whiteboard there are many neat examples of stop motion animation. And, don’t let it intimidate you; it’s really easy to do. It just requires LOTS of digital camera photos to do it!

Learn: Video on setting up a Stop animation

Project Specifications

  • This should look smooth. Take pictures of incremental action. Don’t move things much between shots. Baby steps. USE A TRIPOD!!!!!
  • If using something that’s not “big picture” (such as paper cutouts) that requires dialog or many sound effects, consider changing camera angles from time to time. Just be sure to take several shots at the new angle so it doesn’t look like a mistake.
  • Watch the video before you begin and watch some examples to get ideas--
    http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/channels/cQQojpG0 (Stop Motion Premiere)

Criteria

  • You must create an animation that is a minimum of 30 seconds long. Do not make this longer than 1 minute  Depending on your speed FPS you will need approx.. 300-360 images.
  • Some editing is required—you must have a short 5 second introduction (can be animated text over your first still frame), sound effects and/or background music/narration, and closing credits.
  • Rubric Here

Points: 80 Points

Program: Flash/Premeire/AfterEffects...may edit this to add other items....

Filename: Turn in as an MP4 . Save as StopAnimationFINALYourLastname.

Examples of Stop Motion