Extra tip: For those of you who are taking pictures with your phones, use your earbuds as the remote control! Just simply plug em' in, go to the camera, and press the button(s) on your earbuds! :D
Anyone else here for nostalgia, I used this video as my guide and wasn't bad at it ( but not good) and I enjoyed it. Thanks for making part of my childhood
Around 7 years ago I saw this video as a kid, I also wanted to make Lego stop motions so I did. I remember I cam from school and work on this huge stop motion video. Now I don’t make stop motions anymore, but I make Lego 3D animations. I just want to thank you for inspiring me to do Lego animations. You have been a huge inspiration❤❤❤
This question I get sooooo often, until I get around to making a video about it, this text response will have to do. Get the images onto your computer somehow. Open up your default video editing software (Windows Movie Maker or iMovie). Go to preferences and change the default picture length to about 0.1 seconds. Then drag your pictures into the video editor. Then export/finalize the video :) To add voices, look up "how to add voice in windows movie maker" on RU-vid. Other tutorials exist.
This helped me a lot when I was younger. I recommend this video for beginners. Although after 5 years (and more) of animation, I can see some flaws in this that a more advanced animator might not do. Really great tutorial!
Thank you so much for this tutorial I'm planing to do a stop motion Lego series for my channel but I needed help and you told me every thing I need to know thank you. P.S I LOVE LEGOS!!! keep up the good work.
Algorism brought me back! I was 11 back then and watched ur video as a tutorial. I even made 2 animations! I remember that the lighting was a problem to me. I had no light stands as yours at home so all pictures I took had a different brightness :( But it was a big fun for me at my childhood. So thank you for making this vid back then😁 Hope u stay well !!
I remember wanting to make stop motions when I was only 5 years old but I never knew how to put it together or anything like that but thanks to you I have a better understanding of stop-motion.
Thanks for making this video. It's really helpful. When you are talking about using baking paper to cover the lamps, could this be a fire hazard? Thanks in advance
Ok, thanks a lot for the quick reply! I also forgot to ask, when using a lamp to make stop motion films, the result of the pictures are often different, what I mean is some of the images are darker than others and it ends up being very flickery when they are all compiled together. Could you please recommend what I do to resolve this? Thanks
TheVMan This has a lot to do with your camera settings. Try to set as many settings as you can to manual so that they don't change between shots. More info: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LPYkHRryxMA.html Also make sure sunlight isn't overpowering the lamps.
Use some support bricks to prop up the figure, then take a picture of the background, then for each picture (this might take some time) crop some of the background over the bricks in the first picture.
You can use your phone or tablet instead and use earbuds with a button to take pictures. Just download a stop motion app and click the button on the earbuds to take pictures.
I don’t have a high quality camera cos I’m only 11, so I do it on my iPad and make it in an app called stop motion, then once I’m done I save the video and add sound FX and audio there. I know I’m late but I felt like it’s better late than never, so I sort of hope I helped.
Stop motion is a type of animation. Cartoons are animations and ones like Star Wars the clone wars. They are 3D animations with the affect of a 3D environment
This is extremely helpful, thank you! My boyfriend has a massive lego collection over the last 20+ years and I've always said he could do some amazing videos, but I've never known how to even begin! Now we can try! haha
My setup: stop motion app on a ipad two weights (2.5kg) to hold the ipad 1 base plate no fancy camera or remote random lego pieces lots of black bricks no background(just my cupboard door) editing in imovie 10/10 setup would recommend
depends what apps you use. If you use stop motion the app and iMovie you can make pretty good stop motions depending on how good you are at making them, but yes you can.
Hey, thanks for making this video. It was very helpful. My daughter has shown interest in making these movies and we have already made one before watching any tutorials. Your video has some good tips for our next one.
I've made stop motion films using my Ipod Touch a few years ago. It turned out pretty well other than the fact that I didn't really have much experience, I was young, and I wasn't using a stand to take the shots; so wobbleness in my films. The latest SMA I've made I used the webcam on my computer. (My Ipod broke and I didn't really have a camera :/) I'm still an amateur at stop motion, just now getting back into it.
Higher frame rate does not equal better looks. It really depends on following through on the motion to make it look smooth. With enough practice you can make any animation at any frame rate look smooth.
