Introduction to Stop Motion: Create Animated Loops

Overview

“This lesson will explain how to set up all the necessary elements for shooting the animation, i.e. the set, the camera and the light sources.”

In this video lesson Victor Haegelin addresses the topic: Set-up, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Stop Motion: Create Animated Loops. Learn how to create an animated stop motion sequence from scratch with Dragonframe, from the initial storyboard to the finished film.

Partial transcription of the video

“Establishment In this lesson, we are going to install the decor, the camera and the light sources. As you can see, I installed my little decor as I had planned on my sketch. I put my camera in the axis that I wanted to give an image that looks like the drawings I had. I use 3 light sources, to see how they work, I will turn everything off. There you go, everything is off. The light you see around here is my counter. It's the light that will help the scene to stand out from the background. Then I put on the mood light. That's it, it's the global light that illuminates the whole scene so that...”

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

• Level: Beginner
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• 5 units
• 23 lessons (5h 1m)
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• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Dragonframe

• Areas

  Animation, Stop Motion, Storyboard