Monday, December 24, 2018

Christmas greetings

Here is a Christmas greeting from your corespondents!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmP3acmWcy0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3YNuuVmOfHafOM56Y1lk6zqy8it2PO1Xeh8gWPZtuvdUk34NMoLEvVrAE

We had arranged for them to do a Christmas video for you and we will be shooting a New Year's greeting to send to them the first week back! Start thinking of ideas!

Friday, December 21, 2018

Animation apps and things

Here is a list of good, free apps for iphones and android users.

I recommend that you do a quick test with the app you choose before shooting all your scenes and realizing at the end that there is a problem.

For example, try shooting a movement of 10 images and save that as a scene. Then do a second sequence of 10 images and save that as a scene. Then see what you need to do to connect the separate scenes and add sound.
I can't be more specific than that because each app is a bit different, but from what I have seen and tested, they are very intuitive and easy to use.

Look at each of the apps to decide which one you want to use.

for iphone users:

iStopMotion 3

Considered the best free stop motion for iphone

LookSee Animator

Recommended for the ease in connecting separate films

StopMotion Recorder

Simple but great.

For android:

Animator DV 

really great and here are two tutorials (paper and video):


video


Animation Studio by Sean Brakefield

Considered an excellent app

ENJOY!