Stop-motion fun
Have you ever wanted to create a stop-motion movie but never spend the time? Well, having kids is a good way to do all the things that seemed to childish or not worth the time to realize. So one day my son asked me how animations are actually done and I told him of stop-motions. Naturally he wanted to know if could do such a thing ourselves. After some thought I bought a cheap 5€ remote release for my Canon E1000D digital camera and we were ready to go. I mounted the camera on top of an old tripod (that lacks a few screws and the crank thanks to my kids), connected the remote release, focused and started shooting. This page shows a few small fun projects we did that way.
Things to take care of:
- don't touch/kick the tripod
- don't try it without a remote release (you will move the camera with the built-in release)
- try to ensure a constant lighting (daylight tends to change)
- make very very small moves each frame
Click on the below thumbnails for the animated GIF stop-motion.
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Cool
Been thinking about trying to create some stop motion clips for a while myself. My son is wild with train toys. Would have been cool to locate some good old steam engine sounds and create a little home made train toy video.