Stop Motion: Create Animations with Your Smartphone

Stop motion: create animations with your smartphone

“We reached the end of the course. We hope you have enjoyed discovering all the secrets of animation. Next, we are going to review which phases of your final project we want you to show us when you share it with the whole community. The idea Decide what the elements of your animation will be: background, character (or characters) and what actions it will do. The protagonist of our animation has been a racing car that appears on the screen traveling through different places.

Planning Prepare the set and materials, making sure everything is stable and can be handled without easily getting damaged. Remember that in the composition of the elements you must take into consideration the format in which you are going to publish your animation: square, vertical, rectangular, etc. Also take lighting into account, as we taught you in Unit 3. We have decided to do without the tripod to take the photos and take them both on set and in other locations. It would be great if in this step you showed a photo of your filming set or of the locations where you have filmed, if you have done it in several, and of the materials you have used. Animation The time has come to animate the piece. In our project, using the Stop Motion Studio app, we have taken photos of the car with our mobile. We have photographed it in different locations: the ground, a plant, a table ... For this step, we would love to see how your raw animation has turned out, before going through the editing process. In the lesson "Animation of the scene" you can see how this process has been for us. Edition Once you've made the animation, you can edit it and apply filters, text or graphics, and sound. In Unit 4 we have taught you how to do it and we have recommended several applications for it. We share a gif here. Being in this format, you will see that it has no sound, but in Unit 4 we leave you the video of our finished animation so you can see it with sound. We hope it inspires you! Now share your final project with the community by clicking on "Create your project". Remember to share both the final result of your animation and the steps that have led you to it. It would be great if you showed a picture of each step and added a brief explanation about what you have done in each one. When you share your finished animation, you can share it as a GIF, but we also recommend that you upload it to a platform like YouTube and share the link so that the entire community can see and hear it with sound. I also want to invite you to actively participate in the forum, both sharing your progress and giving advice and trying to help the rest of the community. It is sure to be very enriching for everyone! See you on the forum!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project We come to the end of this Domestika course. We hope you have learned how to make your stop motion animation and apply these techniques in your projects. If you follow these steps You will see that creating your animations is easier than it seems. Consider that to create a good animation you have to spend time, be careful and patient. We would like you to upload your final project, be super original, and share the whole process. We want to see from how you have been inspired and how have you planned your scene using lighting and art direction until the creation of the final pi...”

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Course summary for: Stop Motion: Create Animations with Your Smartphone

• Level: Beginner
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• 6702 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 27m)
• 4 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Areas

  Animation, Film, Video & TV, Photography Post-production, Stop Motion, Video