Stop motion set up by John Fletcher (group B)

Threaded puppet (John Fletcher)

Still Images to Animation in Photoshop

• NB: Earlier versions come with ImageReady which has an Import Folder to Layers option on the File menu.

• Open Photoshop

• File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack

• Select a directory or series of image files. These will then be imported into multiple layers in the same document.

• Window > Animation

• The animation timeline will appear. Click the small menu button in the top-right. Select Make Frames from Layers.

• Each layer will now appear on the timeline as a frame.

• File > Export Render Video.

• Useful for creating short animations or for compiling stop-motion frames.

http://emmatolmie.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/how-to-build-your-own-green-screen-part-1/

Wax – Freeware video compositing for Windows: http://www.debugmode.com/wax/

http://www.toonboom.com/products/toonBoomStudio/

These next links describe making a cutout figure in Flash pre-CS4 and some of the limitations that you might come up against:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwkIuFG6-2U&feature=related

http://animation.about.com/od/flashanimationtutorials/ss/flashlesson5.htm

http://animation.about.com/od/flashanimationtutorials/ss/flash_less7_10.htm

If you have CS4, there’s an intro to bones here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kngaZQQ84Xo&feature=related

http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-use-the-bone-tool-in-flash-cs4-268998/

A good example of animation in Flash 8 that works around the limitations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ddzYpSMMKw&feature=related

Character animation in Motion, really stretching what can be done with mixing 3d objects (which started life as Photoshop files, imported and positioned in 3d space like a house of cards) and 2d keyframed cutouts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJoKoSxQbss

Intro to 3d grouped objects in Motion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNGcDd6ySqk&NR=1&feature=fvwp