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FlipViewFree

Discover hidden movies in your photos, and see the movies you can make by creating sequences of JPG images in your favorite paint program or shooting with your digital still camera! Download and try FlipView Free now!

FlipViewFree plays a folder of JPG images as a movie, just like a flipbook. It's the "viewer" for other members of the StopMotion-Software.com family of programs. It can play a movie at any speed up to 30 frames per second, in forward, reverse, or ping-pong. Check out the Help file for more about how the program works and what it does.

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SaveScan

Simplify your scanning, especially sequential scanning for animation! Download and try SaveScan now.

SaveScan lets you open a scanner's TWAIN interface and automatically save the scans you make as sequentially numbered image files. Modern scanners are fully compatible with HD and Digital Cinema formats, and can give you the ultimate in image quality. SaveScan makes scanning multiple pieces of artwork easy. If you scan to JPG files, FlipView Free can show you your animation while you are scanning! Check out the Help file for more.

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ImageToSound

Make strange sounds from pictures! Download and check out ImageToSound now.

Drawing and scratching on the soundtrack area of film to create sound for animation has a long history. ImageToSound looks at a .BMP file as though it is part of an optical soundtrack on film, and produces a .WAV file of the sound the image would make. Now you can make these noises without having to use film! Check out the Help file for more.

Zanymation at the High Performance Rodeo
The sounds in the soundtrack of "Zanymation at the High Performance Rodeo" were created with early versions of Image to Sound and Image to Sound Plus. The movie itself shows three StopMotion Station setups shooting while a fourth one simultaneously projects all the animations. The artists can play back their own animations and the audience can see them all as they are being created.

More useful stuff

Animators have developed a lot of useful tools. Here are PDF files you can download and print to help you with your animation.

Storyboards

Storyboards.pdf. Storyboards in a variety of 4:3 and 16:9 layouts on letter pages.

Breakdown sheets

BreakdownSheets.pdf. Breakdown sheets for 30, 25, and 24 frames per second and 100 frames per sheet on letter pages. Breakdown sheets allow you to animate to soundtracks and plan animation frame by frame.

Field Guides

Fieldguides.pdf. Field guides help you set up your pages for cartoon animation and align the camera with your artwork. Guides for 4:3 and 16:9 areas on letter and half-letter pages.

Phenakistoscopes

Phenas&Slots6-16.pdf. Phenakistoscope patterns in all sizes from 6 to 16 slots, 8 inches in diameter on a letter page. Don't know what a phenakistoscope is? Google it, check the Wikipedia article, or have a look at my movie Variations on the Phenakistoscope (below) for ideas. The bouncing happy face animation at the top of the page is one of my phenakistoscopes.

Variations on the Phenakistoscope

Accelerated, decelerated, and constant motion

Motion.pdf. One of the most fundamental learning exercises in animation. Place a coin at the leftmost mark on each line and advance it one position per frame. Which coin gets to the righthand end first? How are the coins moving?

Bounce

bounce.pdf. The second fundamental learning exercise in animation. Animate a coin from left to right, shooting one frame at every dot. Play it back and you'll see that this bounce is totally lifeless. Can you say why? How do you fix it so the coin comes alive?

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