Cheap Software Tools Give New Life To Stop-Motion Animation 111
An anonymous reader writes "The NY Times reports that a wide variety of new stop motion animation tools are making it simpler to create stop-motion movies. The new tools are helping animators run more than three times faster than they did just a few years ago. Some even say that stop motion is cheaper than computer generated animation. Tools like Dragon Stop Motion, Stop Motion Pro and iKitMovie are just a few of the tools that are reinvigorating the space."
Re:How can it be cheaper? (Score:3, Informative)
What is a computer going to do, move the model for you? Snap the frame for you?
Um, yes. That's the idea behind setting keyframes: you only specify where things are at certain points, and the computer interpolates for you.
It also means that if you messed up a shot in some way you don't have to go all the way back and reshoot: you can just fix it and rerender.
It also means that you don't have to build physical models or buy a camera.
Re:How can it be cheaper? (Score:4, Informative)
Toonloop (Score:1, Informative)
Free python software: Toonloop [pygame.org].
Apples & apples (Score:4, Informative)
Better CGI-to-stopmotion comparison is SW2 with Corpse Bride, with budgets of $115M vs. $40M respectively, which lines up pretty well accounting for subtracting non-animation costs, and considering they were made only 3 years apart and done within the same general Hollywood system.
Even better would be pure-animation Robots vs. Corpse Bride, made same year with $75M vs. $40M budgets.
Plug: iStopMotion (Score:5, Informative)
Re:And hardware... (Score:2, Informative)
And since this is /. - what about OSS tools?
http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/studentgrupper/2005-hig-stopmotion/ [skolelinux.no]
Available from a ubuntu/debian/etc repository near you.
Re:Uhhh... Yeah (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Lego stop motion (Score:1, Informative)
That's not shot at 25fps
Toonloop is a free software for stop-motion and + (Score:1, Informative)
Hello,
You should try Toonloop, it's a free software I wrote with the help of other talented developers such as Tristan Matthews. I currently works on GNU/Linux, but should be easily ported to other platforms as well. The main difference between Toonloop the software you list is that Toonloop constantly displays the resulting animation is a constant loop.
Find out more at http://toonloop.com/
Best regards,
Alexandre Quessy
http://alexandre.quessy.net/