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Quick Guide to Animation
Just a quick run through of things you amy need to know before trying to animate anything.
Well firstly the materials that you will need to create an animation for the first time, or anytime really, are a web-cam, i would personally recommend the Logitech QuickCam DeLuxe for Notebooks purely because it is relatively cheap and has a glass lens making picture quality very good. Secondly a frame grabbing program will be needed to capture your photos from the web-cam, currently I use trial programs because I am still saving for the full versions. Good programs include, istopmotion, claymation studio 2.0, Helium-frog (free) and Animator DV simple+ (free). All you need now is something to animate, most animators use modelling clay or some use LEGO.
A good thing to do as your first ever animation would be to fist make a ball of clay, set it down in front of the web-cam and begin to capture images. Over time you want to move/morph your ball and take two pictures, this is called shooting on twos, if you do this for about 100 frames at 25FPS (frames per second) then you have yourself a short animation, some people will do more than 100 frames because when you get into it, you lose track of time.
see our website for more information: http://www.rblclaymations.weebly.com other good sites to visit are http://www.animateclay.com , http://www.stopmotionmagic.com and various other animation forums.
