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Stop motion animation made easy

This instructable will hopefully help the average person get to know the basics of stop motion animation and allow them to create free animations of there own. As this is my first instructable, please be reasonable. constructive criticism very welcome. Please leave comments on ideas for any instructable you would like to see next. Thank you and enjoy!

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Step 1Gather materials

First you will need the software used for stop motion capture. In this case i use a wonderfull program called monkeyjam. You can find a full software download at: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Capture/MonkeyJam.shtml. You will also need a working webcam. Any kind will do but i find that a logitech quickcam is the best for stop motion.

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10 comments

Nov 27, 2011. 4:37 PMljustice says:

how do you slow the pictures down on monkeyj mine keep going way too fast

Aug 30, 2010. 2:07 PMemdarcher says:

can this software work on mac?

Jun 13, 2009. 5:01 PMmoo of the cow says:

this monkey jam is hard can some one tell me how it works i make a layer put all my pics in and it keeps on not responding or it says file to big cannot run can someone plz help!!!!!!!

Jun 24, 2009. 7:00 PMSpaceDucky (author) says:

hmmmm. not sure about that. when you say put your pictures in I am not sure what you mean. the program is designed to take pictures from a video capture device like a webcam. then it puts the pictures together to form a avi video file. if that doesn't work try redownloading.

Jun 24, 2009. 8:41 PMmoo of the cow says:

ok thanks

Feb 10, 2009. 3:34 PMRC-0720 says:

Dude! you so totally copied mine! but nice job!

Feb 13, 2009. 2:36 PMSpaceDucky (author) says:

????? sorry i didn't know you had one out my bad

Oct 9, 2008. 7:30 PMSpaceDucky (author) says:

please rate this instructable if possible.

Oct 9, 2008. 5:27 PMacidrain1 says:

Not a bad instructable if you want to know how to get started with that particular program, but i think you need a little more depth of the process. Maybe a hint or two on moving your subject in increments,how long to set capture rate(if applicable)etc. It seems like you just wanted to make people aware that this program exists and its free. I would enjoy seeing a little more info on this instructable. nevertheless, thank you for the info on this program,ill have to check it out myself.

Oct 9, 2008. 6:58 PMSpaceDucky (author) says:

thank you for the ideas. i hope you will check back on this instructable in the future, as i will be updating it frequently.