I’ve been having a little bit of fun lately with stop motions. Stop motion is an animation technique that makes inanimate objects appear to move on their own. Objects are physically moved in small increments and captured one frame at a time so that when played back, it will give the illusion of motion. To make it work, you place an object in front of a camera and take a pic. You then move the object a tiny bit and take another pic. Keep doing this until you’ve completed your sequence. Once you’ve taken a whole lot of images (think 50 - 300+), you can turn your series of photos into your own stop motion or a looping animated GIF by combining your image files as frames.
I use Photoshop on my computer to do this but there are also a bunch of apps that you can use on your phone that are much easier. The Photoshop tutorials I've used to help me can be found here, here and here.
Using your phone and an app is obviously much easier and quicker. There are a ton of apps available today. Creatively Squared have a quick and simple-to-follow tutorial where they show you how to easily create a stop motion sequence on your phone using Viamaker or as it’s now known - CapCut. CapCut is a free all-in-one video editing app that helps you create stop motions in no time!
I used 76 individual photos to create this 14 second stop motion video.
I was really excited when I bought my first pen tablet - the Wacom Intuos S with Bluetooth - that I decided to take a whole bunch of photos (82 to be exact) to create this 12 second stop motion.