Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wesley Fryer

Best Free iPad Apps for Stopmotion Movies

Two of my teachers have emailed me today for Stopmotion video iPad app suggestions. Here’s what I sent them. If you have alternative suggestions please let me know with a comment or Twitter reply to @wfryer.

Here are 2 StopMotion apps which are free and work well:

Stop Motion Cafe: (this is the one my STEM kids used extensively the past 2 years)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stop-motion-cafe/id492389084?mt=8

Lego MovieMaker
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lego-movie-maker/id516001587?mt=8

There are lots more available but you have to be careful because some are FREE but you have to pay an in-app upgrade to do things like export to video to the camera roll. For some of those, there are full featured versions that we can buy, so no in-app purchases are needed. I’ll be glad to help you with either of these – let me know. 🙂

Here’s a 5 minute video I recorded for my students a couple years ago about how to use Stop Motion Cafe to make Lego stopmotion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFkCPJW8YEE

More resources and student stopmotion video example projects are available on the Lego Stopmotion page / Maker Studio page of my STEM curriculum site.

mastery-lego-stopmotion by Wesley Fryer, on Flickr
“Mastery Grid for Lego Stopmotion STEM Center” (CC BY 2.0) by  Wesley Fryer 

Update: Kelly Dumont recommends the free app KOMA KOMA for stopmotion videos, so we’re going to also give that one a try on our school iPads.


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