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Curious about how they make
those movies such as Wallace
and Gromit or those cool
Brickfilm animation shorts
on Youtube. Well here is how to
do it! Creating stopmotion
animation is not difficult but
it does take some patience. So
if you are keen, and want to
show those on Youtube and your
friends what you can do with
your imagination and creativity
then lets go for it!
Follow the steps set out here in
this tutorial and you will learn
all you need to know to make
good brickfilms.
Tutorial - How to Make a 3D stopmotion
animation with LEGO®
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Step 1-
First What Do you Need !
For
Brickfilm Animations you will need..
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A USB
Webcam or Camcorder |
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A Computer |
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Some
Stopmotion animation computer software |
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Lighting of some
kind (Important )
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Something
you want to animate - Characters etc. |
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Step 2
- How to
Animate your LEGO® - The Basics
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Brent |
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Example of a finished Animation |
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Step 3
- Adding Sound
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Step 4
- Motion - Walking versus running |
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Another Example with lots of sound effects... |
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A simple set
This is a simple set I use for
quick animations. I have two webcams in this shot one Logitech
Pro 5000 and a New logitech Quickcam Pro for notebooks. You
really need a manual zoom for stopmotion animation which the
Pro 5000 has. But the Notebook Pro version shown here has a very
good glass "Zeiss" lens so I like to use it. It does have
digital zoom which you can use from its software control on your
PC. I don't have a light in this set as it's near a south facing
window with plenty of light. And as I don't use this set for
longer animations I don't have to worry about the light changing
over time.
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