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Learning Stop Motion Animation

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Stop Motion Animation Courses iMovie Courses DSLR Cameras Courses

Course Description

Overview

Shoot and animate your own stop-motion films with an iPad, smartphone, or DSLR camera and the iStopMotion app for Mac OS and iOS devices.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Understanding Stop Motion
  • What is stop motion, and how does it work?
  • Differences between stop motion and time lapse
  • Choosing a shooting subject
2. Choosing the Gear
  • Shooting with a tablet or smartphone
  • Stabilizing your tablet or smartphone
  • Shooting with a DSLR or DILC
  • Choosing capturing software
  • Choosing editing software
3. Building a Scene
  • Setting up the surface
  • Lighting your environment
  • Positioning the cameras
4. Shooting Stop Motion on iOS
  • An introduction to iStopMotion for iPad
  • Essential animation techniques for beginners
  • Previewing the animation
  • The iStopMotion Remote Camera app
  • Improving your animation techniques
  • Export options
5. Shooting Stop Motion on a Computer
  • Connecting and adjusting the camera
  • An introduction to iStopMotion for desktop
  • Directing the animation
  • Working with filters and color
  • Shooting in reverse
  • Export options
6. Assembling the Stop Motion on the Desktop
  • Importing from the Camera Roll
  • Sending to iMovie
  • Assembling shots in iMovie
  • Exporting the final project from iMovie
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Richard Harrington

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