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Boinx Software recently updated iStopMotion, to version 3.7, making its stop motion animation tool for Mac OS X even better. It now supports OS X El Capitan.
If you want to make stop motion animations, this is the tool for your. IStopMotion’s live preview with semi-transparent ghost image overlay allows animators to see their next shot and make even the tiniest of adjustments before capturing the frame. If your Canon or Nikon DSLR isn't supported, you can let Boinx know using the 'Provide Feedback' command in the iStopMotion menu. IStopMotion is targeted to kids, parents, brickfilmers, pro animators and, well, anyone who wants to try their hand at stop motion animation. In case you're not familiar with the movie making technique, stop motion (also known as stop frame) is an animation technique in which you make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own.
The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Anyone who is familiar with the films of Willis O'Brien, Ray Harryhausen, Jim Danforth, David Allen and others have experienced the process at work. For example, think of the original 'King Kong' film or 'The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.' IStopMotion isn't going to instantly make you into a filmmaker on the level of the creators of these films. But it can set you on that path.
Despite its plethora of powerful features, it's easy to get up and running quickly. The software's onion skinning lets you see what the animation is going to look like before you capture the frame, which can save you lots of time and aggravation. Flipbook printing lets you print your animations in a format that easily folds into a flip book to take them with you. In StopMotion, you can overlay your animation with a picture or video with transparency to achieve some eye-popping effects. The software is versatile; it can use a variety of video cameras, video capture devices and digital photo cameras with support for OS X capture technologies. It offers a lot of control over your camera, including image hue and saturation, color balance, and focus. IStopMotion also offers instant playback, allowing you to watch your animation before it’s finished to see if it's working out the way you wanted.
Among the effects available in iStopMotion are: Tilt Shift, which makes your scene look like a miniature; Rotoscope, in which you can use another movie as a guide for your animation; Time Lapse, which speeds up slow processes such as a sun setting; Chroma Keying, which lets you do things like animate dinosaurs into real background pictures or movies, or put an actor into an animated scene; Live Video Overlay, which controls how much of the last frame vs how much of the live camera you see; and the ability to use a pre-recorded sound track and animate to it. IStopMotion boasts a voice activation feature so you can trigger image captures with a voice command. That's extremely useful if you're a film production crew of one and are busy manipulating those Johnny West action figures from your childhood.
IStopMotion records and stores each frame individually and can export to any format supported by OS X, including Full HD. You can export your work to iMovie, Final Cut Pro X or another video editing app to edit, add titles and sound effects. However, there's one thing I'd like to see fixed. Apply a filter effect and you can't go back and change it later. Overall, for the price this is a very good app for taking, editing, and sharing stop motion videos. IStopMotion for the Mac is available on the Boinx website (www.boinx.com) for $49.99. IStopMotion 3.7 requires OS X 10.7.4 Lion or newer.
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Hello, I've been using tvp for 2 months and I have to say, I don't think I've never learned as quickly a program than now. In the beginning the interface made my eyes cross, but now it seems right and everything just seems to be in place. Ah, and I believe buying tvp has been the best investment of my educational life.
It speeded up my animationprocess times 10. Now when im able to make movement quickly by sketching them, im really able to get inside the movement and stay there. Now I also know that I'm able to do something from beginning to finish. It's very liberating for creativity. Anyhow, My question: We are going to do puppet animation in our school and im wondering how to make tvp stop motion work with mac. In the tvp manual it says canon plugin works with pc only.
Does anybody have any experience with stop motion in tvp and mac? I have a basic canon powershot a85, can it be connected?
Or do i need a real 'system camera'? I tried to find answers from the forum, but found little. (mac alone as a searchword don't give any results, ) Thanks for any reply. I've been browsing this forum from when i started planning to buy tvp, and i'm starting to be sure it has some good stuff in it.
For example, My dog Tulip. I first heard it from here and now theyre showing it in Animatricks in Helsinki. Have to be there.
Also Kari Hietalahti, a funny Finnish man, said he's very interested of the movie because he also has a very extraordinary dog. I thought tvp would be able to grab photos.
Makes me wonder, why then they have built option for stop motion? Is anybody using it for anything? In pc or in mac? Or is it just to be used for webcam stop motion? Seems that there's not many free options for mac.
Framethief seem to get recommendations, I'll have to give it a test. Webpage is wonderful, they seem to have the stuff I probably need. Slowtiger, how do the stop motionists check their material during shooting? They must have some preview option?
They can't just shoot and go home to check what they've done? If I understood the 'bulk' meaning correctly. KariP wrote: how do the stop motionists check their material during shooting? - They can't just shoot and go home to check what they've done?
Hehe - well in the days before computer framegrabbers, that's exactly what they did - using surface gauges to position their puppets. I'm afraid I can't help with Mac software - but as Slowtiger says, make a post at ' onclick='window.open(this.href);return false; and you will certainly get all the help you need, I know there are people there using Macs for stopmotion. I've done one stop motion before and while animating, I didn't look the motion from the software or from any previews.
We used monkeyjam for capturing and for compositing the shot. And to check if everything went good. I focused on the character and somehow kept in mind where he was coming and where he was going. Just good concentrating i guess. This is probably the way the old school did it. I didn't remember this way of doing animation because ive been using tvp, which gives me a possibility to a different method.
Bootcamp is a possibility. I've checked on that.
But it feels too much compared to just having a pc. Ill rather use the framethief for capturing. But thanks for letting me know. Theres still time. I'll wait and see if anything happens.
Maybe a canon plugin for mac, or Fabrices magical card. Sorry for my english and my word orders.
And thank you all. KariP wrote:So webcam is working because it has no shutter? With a webcam tvp records the preview picture. But with a normal camera you have to control it through the program. And thats where it gets difficult? I'll try out some tests with my macbooks inbuilt webcam and see what can i do with that. But i believe a webcam wont be enough for our schoolwork, f.e if we have to use depth of field.
Thanks for your input though. Any mini-dv camera with firewire interface should work with TVP. If the mini-dv camera has manual focusing and manual exposure then you can get depth-of-field. Problem is the mini-dv cameras that have firewire dv-out are disappearing from the market, as are computers with firewire ports built in.
The good thing is there are thoursands of good, used mini dv cameras from Canon, Sony, JVC, etc. Which can be picked up relatively inexpensively on eBay or other used-camera sources.
As Fabrice mentioned, all consumer video is going to HDMI, so an HDMI port or add-on HDMI capture card is the way of the future (until the manufacturers change video formats and interface again in two- to - five years. ) The that Fabrice mentioned has manual focus ring on the front of the camera, so you can get some depth of field by focusing on a close object and throwing the background out-of-focus. But it's a webcam, so don't expect very sophisticated controls or optics. But as webcams go it's a good one. It works well for simple frame-grabbing in TVP for stop-motion.