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StopMotion FlipView

Discover hidden movies in your photos, and see the movies you can make by creating sequences of JPG, TIF, PSD or PNG images in your favorite paint program or shooting with your digital still camera! Download and try StopMotion FlipView for Windows or StopMotion FlipView for Mac OSX now!

Click on the image above to open the StopMotion FlipView tutorial page in a new browser window. You'll be visiting my new site How-To-Make-Your-Own-Animation.com.

StopMotion FlipView plays a folder of JPG, TIF, PSD or PNG images as a movie, just like a flipbook. It's the "viewer" for other members of the StopMotion family of programs. It can play a movie at any speed up to 30 frames per second, in forward, reverse, or ping-pong. Use it to view pictures you've shot on your digital still camera, or drawings you've scanned, or images you've created in paint programs as a movie - immediately! Tweak the frame rate until you're happy with your animation, and you'll be able to put your animation together with confidence and minimum wasted time.

The free trial allows you to use StopMotion FlipView a total of 20 times over a maximum of 30 days. Once you've discovered how essential StopMotion FlipView is, just click on the button to purchase it for $49.95 US. Your payment is completely secure.

Purchase StopMotion FlipView for Windows or Mac.

After you pay, within 24 hours you'll receive an email with your license key for StopMotion FlipView.

StopMotion FlipView works on Windows XP and Vista, and Mac OSX 10.3 and above, on both Power PC and Intel Macs. The Mac download is a zip compressed folder containing the Universal Binary application and the FlipViewLicense text file. StopMotion FlipView requires the free version of QuickTime on both Windows and Mac systems. (You don't need to buy Quicktime Pro.) You can download Quicktime from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/.

StopMotion SaveScan

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

StopMotion 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. StopMotion SaveScan makes scanning multiple pieces of artwork easy. If you scan to JPG files, StopMotion FlipView can show you your animation while you are scanning! Check out the Help file for more.

StopMotion SaveScan has been checked and certified free of viruses, adware and spyware by SoftPedia.com.

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StopMotion ImageToSound

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

Drawing and scratching on the soundtrack area of film to create sound for animation has a long history. StopMotion 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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