Animate your world and bring it to life!
Animate your world and bring it to life!
Creating classic animation has never been easier. If you have a webcam, DV camera, or video camera and capture interface you can start animating! Animate toys, or clay; draw cartoons and make them move. Watch this video to see how you can make magic animating yourself and your friends! Download StopMotion Station and try it FREE for 30 days!
This 13 minute video shows how you can start creating classic animation using StopMotion Station. Download StopMotion Station and try it FREE for 30 days!
My movie Beginning includes a lot of kinds of animation - claymation, whiteboard, paper tape, aquarium gravel, candy and cookies, and includes a dancer rotoscoped in aquarium gravel. It was shot using StopMotion Station a 3-com webcam, except for a few frames from a Fuji digital still camera.
StopMotion Station turns a PC and compatible image source into a combination of a single frame movie camera and an advanced movie viewer. It's the way an animation camera should be. Use StopMotion Station to:
StopMotion Station features:
Look at the online StopMotion Station Help for more information. Or, download the StopMotion Station manual in PDF format. (All the files contain the same content, Stopmotion Station 1.3 Help.)
To check the version of DirectX that's installed on your machine, do the following:
A multi-tabbed dialog will open (it might take a moment) that can tell you more than you probably want to know about DirectX on your machine. The Version number that you're looking for is on the first tab, towards the bottom. If you don't have DirectX8 or above, you'll need an update. You can get the latest version of DirectX from Microsoft, or download DirectX 8 here.
Download the full version of StopMotion Station 1.3 and try it free for 30 days. You can check out all the features of StopMotion Station and make complete animated movies. No features are locked out, and all your shooting stays where you put it. Then buy a license for $50.00 US via PayPal. When you make your purchase you'll receive a license file as an email attachment with intructions for unlocking StopMotion Station so you can carry on animating.
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In classic animation, the animator completely determines what is on each frame of the movie. Classic animation comes in many different varieties. I've posted descriptions and examples on my blog, One Frame - Create Classic Animation. These links open the description and examples in a new browser window.
Zanymation Magic is a fun compilation of classic animation created by Quickdraw Animation Society instructors and facilitators at Quickdraw's Zanymation events from 2004 through 2007. I edited the bits I liked together and added a soundtrack. Of course, it's all animated with StopMotion Station.
Zanymation Magic was featured at Quickdraw's GIRAF 3 animation festival, November 2 - 3, 2007.
Face #1 is another recent animation, 30 seconds long. Can I make you believe that a few pieces of colored plastic are not just moving, but thinking?
Of course, I animated this using my program StopMotion Station.
StopMotion Station stores frames that make up your movie as sequentially numbered JPEG files. You can turn them into digital movie files using many different moviemaking programs. NDrW has created a free utility, JPGVideo, to create AVI files from JPEG images. JPGVideo is available from them, or you can download JPGVideo here right now.
You can also turn your frames into an avi file with the free open-source program VirtualDubMod.
Animation World Network is the place to go if you're into looking at and doing animation.
I belong to Quickdraw Animation Society here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and I've contributed the articles Chez Ani and Beyond, Quickdraw Optical Orchestra, and The Walk and the Whip to the Quickdraw site and to Quickdraw's newsletter.
Stop Motion Works is an excellent animation resource. While their focus is classic stop motion or model animation, the site has things for every level and type of interest, whether you want to look at animation or create it.
Animating Lego is very popular. Legomation.com is a new resource for creating and sharing your Lego masterpieces.
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