The Full Stop-motion Animation Process

How to go from concepts to a finished stop-motion animation. This video covers pre-production, how I configure Dragon Frame, some top tips about cleaning up your images and even some fancy touches you can add in post-production.
I use Dragon Frame, Adobe Lightroom, Premiere Pro and Audition.
Learn how to think about storyboards, how I light a scene, how to remove rigging from your images, how to add motion blur and how to add sound.
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Music: Dead Reckoning (Sting) by Ethan Meixsell

[@AllHomesteading]

I had to click on this video for two reasons. 1. I am getting into stop motion and 2. the puppet in the thumbnail looks like me!

[@raymond8897]

That motion blur bit was well explained. Thank you.

[@Augnalius]

That was really good info, especially the rig erasing and motion blur strategies. Thanks for the video.

[@judgeworks3687]

Great walk thru (also your other tuts are great too). Your teaching style is easy to follow. Thank you.

[@Captainpaipai]

The blurring effect is so smart! Thanks for sharing! :D

[@ladycris1655]

Thank you for your clear explanations,that will help me a lot in my short animation film!

[@armaturepuppet]

Thanks for sharing your experience! It is very cool!

[@juliebradley]

Love this! Thank you for sharing

[@evesjeanz]

very nice tutorial thank you so much very easy to follow and straightforward

[@RobertGlotzbach]

What a great channel you have here, thank you for all this hard work :-)

[@LOESVANDORP]

Thanks a lot! Very useful for my ,one day improvisation animations I started making!

[@TheBohrokMan]

Really helpful tips, like how to learn useful info from reference footage or the masking technique in photoshop! Thanks for putting all of this info together!

[@Justatinyamount]

My pleasure!

[@patriciogonzalez5464]

Amazing tips and class...

[@gunnerstunner2804]

Great vid! Thanks!

[@PaolaSolibuc]

Amazing video! Thank you!!

[@deannabarnes3771]

Amazing 😮

[@fin.animations]

Really useful video. This I'm sure will really help my stop motion too! Thanks for the awesome video

[@PenteadosBarbie_3]

Agreed!

[@PenteadosBarbie_3]

3:43 Lol, hope that ball didn't break a window. This was really helpful! I love making stop motion with dolls and I will definitely use your tips to improve.

[@CSAClipz]

Very good teacher! 👍👍

[@musikmakerman]

Thank you for inspiring me 😎👍

[@alexprzyczynski]

Good work, Gordon. I'm starting to study, build my puppets and play with stop motion. I've much to learn =)

[@Justatinyamount]

Enjoy it! It's a great medium

[@SoCraftyDesignsbyava]

this is gonna help me so much!! thank you,im planning to make a clamation movie so im trying to sudy more:)

[@Justatinyamount]

Glad I could help. I look forward to seeing your movie

[@cineSilas]

amei !

[@mikimomeek2278]

My 6 year old wants to learn along side me. Are you willing to make a paper puppet video “slowing it down” kiddy style? We have tools for full stop motion but I’d like to start small for him

[@prosperityokechukwu1503]

Pls how can we see some of the animations you were working on

[@Q80splendor]

hi , no one talk about how to export single or multiple photos to fix on photoshop ???

[@Augnalius]

You used 24 fps to see the fast action. What is the bare minimum frame rate one could use to see smooth fast action? In order to save time and effort in creating, could one get away with using 15-20 fps and still have smooth fast animation? What is the bare minimum frame rate for smooth fast action?

[@Justatinyamount]

I heard someone say once that you need see 3 frames of something to register that it happened. If your framerate is so low that an action takes fewer than 3 frames you need a faster framerate.

[@Micropoint.]

12/15 is the lowest, you can have smooth animation at 12 yeah yeah *!*

[@BryanKalina]

Are you ever going to be making yourself in puppet form

[@Justatinyamount]

Maybe one day. It would feel too much like making a voodoo doll.

[@HorrorDude86]

perfect name for a stop motion channel! Anyone fancy a pint?

[@zakaroonetwork777]

Frame overlay is only cheating yourself and taking twice as long.