Introduction to Stop Motion: Create Animated Loops

Overview

“Everything was imported successfully. Now it's time to clean up the animation and hide the supports. To do this, you will have to create masks and animate them so that they follow the movement. It is at this stage that you will understand the usefulness of X2. It is a task that takes time. You have to have patience!”

In this video lesson Victor Haegelin addresses the topic: Masking Rods and Supports 2, 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

“Hiding rods and brackets So, to clean up, I'll do it on the first frame and that's good because the first image is where we start. There, we enter the hard cleaning. Be patient, it takes time, it is quite a repetitive task. I'll show you on some pictures how it's done. Already, we make sure to have selected the Anim layer. You saw, it's called Anim 2. Since I had cut the Anim layer, the number incremented on its own. I call it Clean Fin. And my animation layer was called Anim 2. It really doesn't matter, but I rename it to make it clean. It's good to keep things in order. Now I'm going to t...”

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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