Introduction to Stop Motion: Create Animated Loops

Introduction to Stop Motion: Create Animated Loops

“Thank you for following my course to the end! I really enjoyed sharing my know-how with you and I hope you feel ready to create your animation. I summarize here the essential steps to follow for a successful project. This can be the animation you already started with the exercises or you can create a new one! In any case, take care to document the different stages of your creation and add a brief explanation of what you did in each of them, your choices, as well as any obstacles you may have encountered. Storyboard and Documentation Start by creating a scenario and preparing a storyboard. Then, document yourself on the theme you have chosen by going to see, in particular, videos that allow you to understand the movements made by the elements that you are going to animate.

Decor and setup Build the scenery and find all the objects that you will animate. You can find them online or make them yourself. Then place the camera and lights, paying attention to framing and shadows. Be bright! Above all, once everything is ready, don't forget to fix everything!! You can then move on to the Blocking stage, take stock with your camera, and perform the Clean Plate. Animation and Postproduction Let's go for the animation! Don't rush and watch your reference videos as many times as needed. Remember to determine the sequence of steps according to the speed and dynamism you want to bring to each shot, and try to use your media as little as possible to facilitate post-production work. Once you have looped the animation, you can go into After Effects to hide the supports. You can also add sound design. And now stream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to see what you've created. Don't forget to share your project with the community. To do this, click on the “Create your project” button. I encourage you to watch what your comrades have been up to and comment on their posts. This will help you progress. For my part, I will come by as soon as possible to comment on your work and discuss with you. I hope you had as much fun taking this course as I had giving it. See you soon !”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project Here is the last video of the course. Thank you for having followed it, I appreciated sharing my know-how. I hope you liked it. Now, we will see together the key steps for your final project. First, you need to create a scenario and prepare your storyboard. You need to research the topic. Go see reference videos, images, movements and dissect them frame by frame. From there, we will build the decor and the elements to animate. If they exist on the internet, do not hesitate. Otherwise, make them. When we have all that, we place the camera and the lights. Remember to be bright. ...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Stop Motion: Create Animated Loops

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (66)
• 2685 students
• 5 units
• 23 lessons (5h 1m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Dragonframe

• Areas

  Animation, Stop Motion, Storyboard