Making my own Wallace & Grommet !

[Golfman]

Hope I have posted in the right place?

I want to teach my daughters about basic animation using our digi-camera and PC, does anyone have any tips (apart from patience) about equipment or software available that would be best used to teach my girls?

I have some playdough ready in a morph / alien type shape!

Thanks!

Wallace & Gromit!

Edited by Golfman on Monday 12th January 08:20

[E36GUY]

In its basic form it is just a series of stills. Use your video camera to take a pic, move the subject, take another pic, move the subject, take another pic etc etc. Very time consuming but pretty simple

[Golfman]

E36GUY said:

In its basic form it is just a series of stills. Use your video camera to take a pic, move the subject, take another pic, move the subject, take another pic etc etc. Very time consuming but pretty simple

No matter how fast I double click on the images taken it wont look like fluid motion though...

[elster]

May I suggest using Linux on your computer as then free software for the beginner and it seems almost all the animation companies agree with me.

To start off I would recommend playing around with blender.

There are also hundreds of tutorials on how to do almost everything in blender. Which makes things very easy to learn.

[treehack]

My daughter does this,as mentioned,pic,move a little,pic,repeat about 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times then load them all into windows movie maker.

[Nobody You Know]

Don't leave the characters too close to the radiator...

[aspender]

You just need a way to take your series of digital images from your camera and turn them into an actual movie file. One way is to use Quicktime Pro, which has the ability to import an image sequence and then save it out as a .mov file with whatever frame-rate you wish (each frame being one image)

[kong]

Adobe premier is a good piece of software for this, not sure how available it is though.

I think you can use it with almost any camera or video camera

[spikeyhead]

In order to get an idea of how far to move each limb, get one kid to film the other doing a similar action.

They can then replay that frame by frame and make similar adjustments to the models between each picture.

[davido140]

Everything you need to know.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fUzSHvS8ac0

Just a tiny amount.

[anonymous-user]

It's "Gromit" by the way.

[trooperiziz]

Not tried it myself, but this might help

http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com/monkeyja...

[charnock]

its great fun. as someone ellse said just move it little bits at a time and then set movie maker to display each image for the smallest amount of time possible.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CVwEjPkgAJc

[On Time]

charnock said:

its great fun. as someone ellse said just move it little bits at a time and then set movie maker to display each image for the smallest amount of time possible.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CVwEjPkgAJc

That has completely made my morning. Fantastic.