Easy fast lightboard animation

this will teach you how to make easy animation for small or no price.

Step 1 Whatchya need

Materials:
1) glass cassoral tray or glass sheet
2) some light source (christmas tree light, flash lights, etc.)
3) paper, lots of paper (depends on how long the animation is)
4) digital camera (need to hook up to the computer)
5) pencil, pen

it doesn't have to be these exact materials, you can change some of them if they work the same.

Comments

[salbabob]

VERY good idea

[Sunny124613]

This is really cool but I do clay animation

[schorhr]

Hello, a couple of suggestions:
-Fix the camera position, focus and exposure to avoid shaking and flickering
-Fix the position of the paper
-crop images to paper area

Also, there is
http://ktoon.toonka.com which slowly but surely turns into a usable animation tool (similar to flash). It is still in the works but works fine for frame by frame doodles.
Then there is Synfig, which is a free, feature rich and working animation programm.
Hope this helps ;-)
For stopmotion check out http://giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com

[finfan7]

This is not bad. It seems to be a couple instructables in one. The title instructable is not well represented so it should probably be trimmed and renamed Light table on the cheap or some such and then redone with more about the process of drawing the animation. I have wanted a light table for a while but I never thought of using a casserole dish with crismas lights. Cool beans.