If you are shooting down to create a 2D type stop-motion you will want to use a Rostrum camera. There are a few videos that can be found online that show you how to do this. If you are up to the challenge, you can even create your own. Again, these can be found from most online and high street shops and vary in price, but can found as little as £1.41 on amazon. If you already have a camera tripod, then you will need a phone mount it. Be sure to check that the mount will fit your phone as some tripods are designed for certain mobiles. The majority of these will also be portable, meaning you can create a stop-motion wherever you are. These can now be found in high street shops/ online and will keep your phone still throughout your shoot. If you are shooting on a phone, there are many phone mounts available that will hold your phone in place. Shooting handheld will make it pretty much impossible to capture your animation, so you will need a tripod to steady your camera. You will also need to keep your camera very still throughout shooting your animation. This would stop your camera from changing any settings, which would result in footage getting lighter, darker, changing focus etc. When shooting with your camera, try to keep everything on a manual setting. You can of course vary this – a fight or chase scene, where a lot is happening on screen very quickly, might require a higher temporary frame rate than a conversation scene between two characters. Shooting on twos (you might know where this is going) means creating a new pose every two frames. If you are going to shoot on ones, this would mean moving the animation every frame and taking a new still. As an animator, you also have the option of choosing whether you will be animating on ones or twos. Keep in mind that the lower the frame rate, the jerkier the animation can be. I would say it’s even possible to go as low as 10FPS for stop-motion animation. A more sensible frame rate for stop-motion animation would be around 12-15 frames per second, or FPS. Because you will be moving characters and sets between each frame, it would take a lot of work to take 24 still frames for every second of animation. This is otherwise known as the frame rate. I am going to give a quick thought on how many stills you should take for every second of animation. Yes, having a high-end camera will produce better images, but the true skill of an animator will be shown in the story you’re telling, and the characters you bring to life, rather than how many megapixels you shot with. Having control over all of the cameras settings including focus is important and will come second nature to anyone who has used a DSLR before. The different lenses and the control settings of a DSLR will give you a little more creative input and precision. For example, if you wanted to get very close into your subject, or you don’t have much room behind the camera, a wide angle lens will be ideal for both of these situations. DSLRs have interchangeable lenses and can be changed with ease. Using a DSLR will let you capture images at a very high resolution. In fact, recent feature films have used DSLRs (normally Nikon or Canon): for example, Paranorman was shot with a Canon EOS 5D Mark ii. If you are looking to capture a high quality top of the range animation, the camera of choice would be a high quality DSLR. Your animations will be captured with ease and the data will be recorded straight to your PC. Although the picture quality will not be the best available, these are great for beginners as you can see the live feed through your webcam lens on your pc/mac monitor. Webcams can be bought at a cheap price these days. If you don’t own a phone with a camera, you could think about using a webcam. I would recommend buying one if you are going to be shooting a lot of footage and don’t want to clog your phone up with hundreds of images. Most phones have an insert for a Mini SD slot. Before you begin, think about how many images you might be taking and if you have enough memory on your phone to capture all of your animation. Mobile phone cameras are getting better and better every year and this will be ideal for any beginner. If you own a phone with a camera, then you can use this to begin capturing your animation. CamerasĬapturing your animation is an important process of creating a stop-motion animation, so to begin, let me cover a few camera options. This week we continue with part 3 and will talk about equipment and software. In part 2 of our introduction into stop-motion animation, we covered pre-production.
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