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hi welcome back everyone this time on pocket filemaker we're going to have a look at some basics of stock frame animation and how to get you started now when we think of animation we normally think of two extremes either a blockbuster visual effects masterpiece from Hollywood or traditional cartoon style animation with handcrafted characters essentially stock frame animation is the process of recording a lot of still pictures in the one video or film sequence our eyes are easily fooled and we see animation as the end result in fact think back to flipbook animations and you'll know that you don't actually even need a camera to create the illusion of motion pictures so how can we make animation on our smartphones there's lots of apps that help you stitch together still images to create pocket animations and some were quite professional recording features too but we're going to learn more about those in a minute the vine was launched recently as Twitter's answer to social video sharing you know what it's really simple but very powerful download the free app to your iPhone create a user profile and simply start shooting the camera window doesn't even have any buttons simply touch the screen to record and lift your finger to pause and touch the screen again to keep going it records to a 6-second looping video file and with a little practice and patience you can create some animation clips this very same way now to get started simply make sure your iPhone is on a tripod or hold up so it remains nice and sturdy next fire up vine and frame your animation surface in this case simple whiteboard draw your first picture then lightly touch the screen to record a very short slice of video like a frame next change the picture by adding or altering part of your drawing then repeat the process to report the next section of frames eventually you can end up with 6 seconds of hand-drawn animation that you can truly call your own there's many great little apps to help you record animations and stop-motion photography on your phone here's a few of my personal favorites miniatures is an app that turns everyday scenes in the time-lapse miniature settings thanks to clever use of soft focus areas giving the impression of very shallow depth of field you can choose a variety of different intervals between recording frames plus a number of detailed image control variables - very powerful and great fun to play with so long as you can keep this smartphone nice and steady during recording animation creator Express is a powerful stop motion drawing up which gives you impressive control over your finger drawing artwork and the version I'm using here is completely free great for learning the basics behind how to draw objects in motion and to share them with your social networks in selecting stop-motion studio is the answer if you're into claymation of filming and stop-motion sequences now it allows you to see the previous frame your shot and positioning your new movie in relationship to that which is a really powerful feature and simple enough for kids to understand and use to bring on a rainy day well there you have it if you haven't tried creating your own animations yet hope you have inspires you to give it a shot thanks again for watching happy animating we'll see you next time