Stop Motion Exercise

Stop Motion - Pixelation:

  My Stop Motion Animation exercise.












Pixelation is a series of still images (person in the video moving a tiny bit) this gives off the illusion that they are moving. We created a Pixelation that lasted 11 seconds showing you how it works.

We used software named iStopMotion, which has a frame rate of 12 images per second. Every click the person moved a tiny bit.

Once the animation was created and finalised we exported the video to the best quality onto the Desktop. This was so we could put it into the Public folder or onto the internet (YouTube).

The File format was exported as a DV, this was the biggest file but best quality.

As the animation was exported onto the Desktop this meant we could upload it into our college YouTube accounts. We simply clicked 'Upload' on the Youtube home screen and waiting for it to finish. Then I added a title and clicked save.

Once the video was uploaded for the public to see I could take the Embed code from the video. Then i copied the code, and uploaded it in my Blog. (Pasting the code into HTML).

I can now view my Stop Motion Animation in Blogger and Youtube on my account.

Example of Stop Motion (Pixelation)

An example is 'Neighbours' created by Norman McLaren. It was created in 1952 which took hundreds of photos. For each second 12 photos had to be taken. It lasted for around 8 minutes which showed the time and effort it must have took to make it look so smooth.

Here is Norman McLaren's Neighbours.