1. Stop-Motion Animation Guide

2. Equipment
• For a Stop-Motion Animation you will
need:
• Camera
• Tripod
• What every you need to create the set
and characters

3. Characters
• For the characters depending on what type of
characters you want to use, you may use
different materials or products to create the
characters (I.E. Lego, Clay).
• Also for the characters for the stop motion
animation you will need to take a couple of
shots for each movement the character
makes, so in the final piece it moves in a
smooth movement.

4. Set
• Depending on what type of stop-motion
animation you do, the set will look different for
what ever you decide to do.
• So you need to be sure on a solid idea which
you will stick to until the animation is
completed.
• For example: if you do a E4 animation for
stop-motion you’ll try and make the set stick
with the original colour (keyword: Pantone
colour) purple.

5. Camera shots/ Movement
• For each camera shot you take of a
character you’ll need to take two shots.
• This goes for every movement as well
so at the end of the piece it looks
smooth and that its been done properly
and care has been taken while the
production of this stop-motion
animation.

6. Editing/ sound
• For editing you’ll need to use final cut, as it’s
the best editing system we have.
• Whilst editing you’ll also need to put sound in.
Depending on what your animation is based
on you’ll need to choose appropriate music to
go with it.
• To put music into final cut you’ll need to go
onto Youtube find the music you wish to play
in your animation, and take the hyper link,
and open a new tab on the internet and find a
Youtube to MP3 converter to then be able to
put the music into final cut.

7. Exporting
• Exporting your short Stop-Motion Animation
onto your blogger page you can either:
• Put it onto Youtube and then take the hyper
link and put it on your blogger on your post
and on to the HTML and it’ll them be on your
blogger.
• You can also save your animation onto a
memory stick and then put it on your blogger
separately.