Stop Motion Helper
Helps you capture images for your stop motion films, and easily preview/delete frames.
This code was written for Adventures in Animation, a children's workshop at Anderson Ranch Arts Center.
To make a silent .mov
- Download and install Processing
- Put this repo into Processing/Sketchbook folder
- Import Video library
- Run StopMotionHelper.pde
- Create your stop motion frames
- C to switch camera
- SPACE to snap a picture
- ENTER to preview frames
- O to toggle onion skin
- E to toggle edit mode
- LEFT/RIGHT arrow keys to scrub through frames
- DELETE to delete a selected frame
- L to load a project, or start a new movie
- Use Tools/Movie Maker to export frames into .mov file
- Choose ../Processing/StopMotionHelper/data/..filmname../frames
- Select desired framerate
- Compression, JPEG
- Check Same size as originals
- Create Movie
- Add sound with software of choice, I use iMovie on Mac
July 2018