About Anim8 Stop Motion
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About Anim8 Stop Motion
In our opinion stop motion is a way in which to explore and push your imagination to the limits. It doesn’t matter if you use clay, puppets, toys or what ever objects affection you can conjure up to animate. Stop Motion is a great way to tell a story or to just have some fun be you young, old, professional or amateur.
With Anim8 Stop Motion we wanted to create a place where everyone interested in this timeless art could come learn, aspire, showcase and meet other like-minded people. More than anything else we just wanted you to have some good old-fashioned fun.
With this in mind we hope you all enjoy the site and can’t wait to see what you and your imagination can create.
Best wishes
The Anim8 Team
Stop motion (or frame-by-frame) animation is a general term for an animation technique which makes a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved by extremely small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames are played as a continuous sequence. Clay figures are often used in stop motion animations, known as claymation, for their ease of repositioning. Software applications such as Stop Motion Pro, istopmotion and monkeyjam have made the technique popular among young filmmakers.
- Wikipedia - for a description of stop motion
- Stopmotion Animation- A great web site with a thriving comunity of animators
- Animate Clay - Another great resource for claymation tips and news
- Brick films - Lego animation community
- Mamsham - An amature animator with a great forum