Stop Motion Software & Tools :: Review. Overview of Stop Motion Software & Tools * UPDATE - It is realized that this page has not been updated in awhile. Some of the programs may no longer be available. Would like to update this resource page. If you find programs are not available, you may contact me which would help in updating this resource listing. 10-28-13 BRIEF HISTORY: "Movie Film" was the most common image storage medium to permanently record & preserve your animation (film still used). In the early Stop Motion days, while you were animating, there was no way to see the animation inprogress. It was difficult to visually measure and judge the incremental frame by frame movements, and impossible to see your previous animated movements (as you were animating). The following are not detailed reviews of the of the Stop Motion capturing/recording software-tools, but more of my general comments and I am not going to be too critical. Instead of asking, "Which is the best program?
" Okay, here goes .... happy shopping ....... . Stopit stop motion software. StopIt is a free Windows application for stitching photos together into a movie file, ideal for stop motion animation and time-lapse movies. It's a fairly basic and simple application to use, so it's ideal for people who are new to stop motion animation. The application also gives you some control over the position of each individual frame enabling you to smooth out movies when there has been an accidental slight movement with the camera.
You can also create stop motion animations using your web cam directly in StopIt. StopIt is not intended to be used to create the finished movie - once you have turned your photos into movies, you'll then need some editing software to add transitions and soundtrack etc. I initially wrote the application because I wanted to play with stop motion, but didn't want to pay for software only to use it once. If you've created any cool stop motion/timelapse movies with StopIt, drop me a link and maybe I'll add it to the 'Made with StopIt' page. Testimonials. PAP Tutorials. Another concept you need to know about, before we move on, is the "Range". The Range is a part of your animation, a number of consecutive frames, which are enclosed by the Range Start and Range End markers.
You use the Range for many different things. When you play back your animation with say, Play Loop [4], PAP will only play the frames inside the Range. This is so you can have a very long animation loaded, but only watch the small part you are working on at the moment. - You don't want to have to look through all animation leading up to what you need to check. So use the Range for that. The Range is also good for marking frames that you want to manipulate with functions. So how can you change the Range? If you need to quickly mark a smaller part of your animation with a range, another good way of doing so is by turning your pen around and using the eraser end to drag across the thumbnails in the X-Strip - marking frames as you would mark text in a text editor. Fine. Cycle Range. Plastic Animation Paper - PAP:Pro 4.0 for free. Welcome to Animateclay.com: The Stop Motion Animation How to Page. JLipSync | Download JLipSync software for free.