Animation Club End of Year Update
As the year draws to a close, I would like to thank all the animators for their commitment and creativity! I have a couple of things to announce for the next few animation club meetings.
- April 25th (Wednesday) – Editing! We will have the computer carts here for you to edit your footage and create your final movie!
- May 1st (Tuesday) - Club meets as usual just on a different day.
- May 10th (Thursday) – Club meets as usual just on a different day. Bring flash drives to store all your footage!
- May 16th (Wednesday) – Final club meeting for this school year and the 1st Animation Club Festival 2:30-4:30. Invite your friends and family to watch your “short films” from this year!
My vision for this club is to create an opportunity for students to learn about the history of animation, explore many types of animation and begin creating our own animated movies.
It is my hope that through this club, a core group of DSA animators will organize themselves and work collaboratively to create animations worthy of entering contests, festivals, etc., and have fun doing it!
We will hold regular meetings on Wednesdays after school from 2:40 – 4:30
You must sign up with Mrs. Fleischman to join the club
I highly recommend that you bring a notebook or sketchbook and pencil to each meeting.
Suggested supplies to bring
- Pencils
- Erasers
- Scissors
- Glue
- Ruler
Occassionally Mrs. Fleischman may ask you to bring certain items to help with your next animation project. She will post this on the website and give you a reminder each week of what is coming up next.
Suggestions for Stop Motion Software
Windows (PC) –
Stop Motion Animator – www.clayanimator.com It’s a simple program, mainly designed for basic clay animation, that will work with any Video for Windows compatible capture devices, such as Web Cameras, analog video cameras and digital video cameras. The camera can be connected to a computer that has a dedicated capture card or a USB port.
Anasazi Animator – www.animateclay.com is a bit more robust. Created by Animateclay.com and programmer Penn Taylor, this software saves and plays back your animation on your hard drive. Features include: Immediate Playback; Live Onion Skinning; Frame Flipping; Single / Multiple Frame Grabbing Markers; User Assignable Hot Keys; Resizable Video Window; Multiple Configuration Profiles Compression Support; and Windows Native AVI support.
Apple (Mac) and (PC)
Single Framer – www.zachpoff.com/software/singleframer/ This is a very basic animation program. SingleFramer is a frame-capture application for animators. It captures individual frames from an attached video camera, either manually or automatically (time-lapse). This site by Zach Poff also offers free software for other artistic endeavors including sound!
Dragon – www.dragonstopmotion.com/ This is a professional software with lots of bells and whistles including shooting in 3D. This software is more complex to learn and use, and more expensive. $275. There is a 30 day free trial.
iStopmotion2 – http://boinx.com/istopmotion/overview A very teacher and student friendly software that costs around $50 for the basic software. Other more professional versions (istopmotion express and pro)are offered for more money. There is a 5 day trial.
Stopmotion pro – www.stopmotionpro.com/ Educators and professionals use this software frequently. Cost for basic software is $70. Visit the website for information on other options of software.
Frame Thief – For Mac. www.framethief.com This program is $35 for educational license. Simple to use and compatible with cameras and webcams.