Creating your Stop Motion Animation Projects

Step 1: After you have finished your story board, create your characters in clay.

Step 2: Set up a backdrop and set for your characters.

Step 3: Using Photo Booth, take frame by frame photos while slightly moving your clay characters. Before the next step if you are using text in your background, go to the top bar in photo booth, click view, and select flip photo! DO THIS FOR EVERY PHOTO!!!

Step 4: Select all of your photos (hold shift key), then click on the iphoto icon to export the photo to iphoto.

Step 5: Open imovie and start a new project. Title it Stop motion and then add the number that I assign your group.

Step 6: Theme / none ; click the camera icon on the far right middle section ; click on the event with your images ; click and drag it to part marked "drag media here"

Step 7: Go to movie, preferences; Check the "display time as HH:MM:SS Frames

Step 8: Click on the first clip on the blue gear, click on clip adjustments, type 0:05 for the duration, check "apply to all stills".

Step 9: Highlight all off the clips by holding the shift key; Click on the first clips blue gear; click on "Cropping, Ken Burns, and Rotation"; click on "FIT"; click done.

Step 10: CALL ME OVER TO CHECK UP TO THIS POINT!!!

Step 11: Select "Share"; Select "Export Movie"; export size is Medium; Export to your ART FOLDER!

Step 12: ... to be continued