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animation

Basics of i Stop Motion

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Fig.1 - Set up your camera onto a tripod with the camera looking down onto your object as in the image below and place what you want to animate onto the screen.

How to make a ball and socket joint for stop motion armature

A really great example of using online blogs and media to support complex workshop work from Steve wood and his brilliant blog

English Plus Film short course

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Selection of Images of the English Plus Film short course July 2010, video of the work completed on the short course with descriptions of how each piece was made can be

Dragon Stop Motion Tutorial for Mac with Canon DSLR

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Guide to Using Dragon Stop Motion

Turn on  Computer

Set DSLR camera to Manual (M on dial)

Set DSLR to Manual Focus on lens

Turn on DSLR camera

Contextual references English Plus Film

In week 1 & 2 we we be exploring video and animation techniques in a fine art context.

Wimbledon Technical Arts talking about her animation project

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Ruth, Wimbledon Technical Arts talking about her animation project.

Teaching Stop Motion Animation In-class

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Video describing my intervention for the Teaching Development Project of my PG Cert.

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

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This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.

Three fingers and white gloves – conventions and representation of cartoon morphology

 

Three fingers and white gloves – conventions and representation of cartoon morphology

 

Stopframe software

Below text is taken from an internal email, I thought it was good bit of advice and general information that could be shared.