“Back to the Corral: Our first iStopMotion Effort” (no password required)
This 30 second marvel (plus intro footage, character spots, and end credits: one minute, 30 sec) actually represents 346 separate frames taken with an iBot firewire camera connected to a Macintosh Powerbook. Our preproduction, production and post-production times were roughly:
– Set Construction: 1 hour (the set actually gave us the idea for making this movie – Everything was put together by Alexander, he was proud to have used every single Lincoln Log in his set to create this Bonanza-like masterpiece)
– Planning: 2 minutes (all the ideas were Alexander’s)
– Software download and brief scan of how-to tutorial: 5 min
– Production Videography: 1 hour
– Post-Production Editing with iMovie: 1 hour
If you are wanting to have some fun with stop motion moviemaking, I highly commend iStopMotion. It is hard to imagine a process this fun and creative getting any easier! (BTW, at this point Alexander is 6 years old– his career options in videography look very bright!)
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