Stop Motion Tutorial: Animating to Live-Action

[@PenteadosBarbie_3]

This is another level of stop motion! So fun to watch! Thanks for making a tutorial on this.

[@HarriRobins]

I'm planning on shooting something like this, with live action in a woods, and then using my monitors as a sort of minature volume like what was used on the Mandalorian to add realistic lighting to my stop motion character. And taking two photos for each pose, one with a green screen so that I can key them out and use that as a matte to cut out the nice well lit version. I recommend anyone do this, if they can easily throw a black screen behind the character per each pose, so that you're not messing with colours when trying to remove all the green.

[@leongarcia8674]

Nice tutorial. I like the effect.

[@zebblair7879]

Thank you so much for keeping up with this. I'm always pleased to find a new video from you.

[@cutatube]

Really well explained, short and sharp. And I found it a very unique content, getting away a little bit from the usual tutorials. Keep them coming please!

[@greenmanstudios8746]

This gives me an idea or 2 on another clip project. Thanks as always for the tutorials, you are helping many aspiring stop frame animators.

[@fin.animations]

Ayyyyy your back!

[@EliQuallsAnimations]

For my web show’s visual effects, I am going to use claymation to achieve them. My web show Marty Galactix will have stop motion for visual effects and creatures.

[@jeremiahprekins1344]

The king has returned

[@hoserlu]

I'm likely never going to do this, but it was still very cool to see how it's done.

[@anirudhjain2462]

He's back

[@MohamedAmine-oj4th]

the first you are the best animator in the world i m from algeria

[@mahmoudm8831]

Welcome back!

[@SYgameX]

Wow very nice big fan from Pakistan

[@AshunTekno]

Appreciate your work and tutorial. I've always been fascinated with stop motion compositing... James and the Giant Peach and Beetlejuice are a few movies that came to mind. Keep up the good work :D

[@nirajmulani6220]

Very Good Information Sire Thank You 😊😊😊

[@MrGuitarJockey]

Crazy I was just trying to figure out how to do this, and you upload the perfect video!

[@angelochafin]

Very good!!!

[@magicworldbyjorg]

...cool video keep up the great content

[@nicodevhaymic]

Great video man

[@ImmortalIdeas]

Hella cool!!! I just started using stop motion in some of my music vids! Pretty cool!

[@MaitrayaRai]

This is a brilliant brilliant tutorial sir.. You are helping the community.. Thank u so much for this 🙏🙏👌👌

[@wandajohnson8729]

Cool

[@kanewilliams1653]

This is soooo cool thank you Michael :D Would love to do this one day... you are inspiring me!

[@serithin4703]

Wow thank you for this!

[@leekrishh]

Amazing👍

[@Brickursel]

Cool, danke fürs zeigen. Bin für jede hilfe, idee dankbar. Abo lass ich da👍😊

[@manthankalekararts2]

Tip You can teach us about different software of animation

[@animateangus]

Great tutorial Michael! I did something similar last year with myself fighting a stop motion dinosaur in my garden. What is the best export settings for Dragonframe, did you export as a JPEG image sequence?

[@MichaelParks]

Yes, I exported high quality jpgs.

[@normanrodgers]

And Clay hairstyles

[@spectrumAYE]

can you please do a tutorial on IStopMotion?

[@Barbarosich]

Спасибо за урок!

[@manthankalekararts2]

Information about 2d animation plz

[@_caca_.]

oml yes can you make a video about drawing animation

[@froggo1088]

Could you make a video on building the models?

[@rhysseddon7279]

random question, do you animate use mainly toggling or onion skinning?

[@MichaelParks]

Mainly toggling. I start with onion skinning to get most of the spacing, but toggling shows all the detail better, like face and how the character is moving, like body twists.

[@Zain_production]

can you make s dinosaur attack animation i need to that on my animation

[@manthankalekararts2]

How to draw character for animation

[@argentinanaoma1247]

How do you composite stop motion over live action? I've looked for that video on this channel. I couldn't find it.

[@MichaelParks]

I use Adobe After Effects, and also get into that in the Greenscreen tutorial.

[@ytwetethx]

Michael I have a question about focus can you animate a focus or do you have to focus in on one character finish that animation,and then just focus on the other character and then start the next animation?

[@MichaelParks]

You can animate a change to the focus (rack focus), including an ease in and ease out to simulate a gradual focus shift. On a DSLR with a manual focus lens, you can put a piece of tape on the lens and mark the beginning and end of the focus change, then mark the increments for each frame inbetween. As you animate, you would turn the focus ring to the next mark to gradually change the focus. The stop motion studio app also has a manual setting where you can change the focus over the course of several frames.

[@ytwetethx]

@@MichaelParks does that mean that I won’t have to use my hand to focus on the camera but i can focus using dragon frame?

[@MichaelParks]

​@@ytwetethx There is a way Dragonframe can control focus, but I've never used it. That requires autofocus lenses that Dragonframe can take control of, and I just have manual lenses.

[@ytwetethx]

@@MichaelParks if I wanted to make a bigger sculpture for close-ups from the waist up of a sculpture, should I use thicker wire than 16th inch?

[@MichaelParks]

@@ytwetethx I'd just double up the 16th inch, twisting two or more together to make it stronger.

[@normanrodgers]

Can you show us how to make a kid amateur

[@MichaelParks]

If you mean armature, I have a tutorial on that (kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5rQd2dneNeAjq8). Please let me know if you mean something else.

[@normanrodgers]

@@MichaelParks : ok thanks

[@argentinanaoma1247]

Is there any mobile app that can import live action videos so that you can overlay the stop motion effects?

[@MichaelParks]

Not that I know of. Looks like Stop Motion Studio Pro can import still images, but not video.

[@coffeedates6515]

Can you do this on stop motion studio

[@MichaelParks]

It doesn't have that feature built in. You would need to composite the animation with the background plate in another app.

[@suaveslav6047]

Hi

[@mrvlsmarvelousyt]

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