Stop Frame Animation

Creating the animation

In this blog I will be showing my experiments in animation. All images were taken using a Fuji Finepix S1900 Bridge camera on an octopus tripod. The majority were filmed indoors unless stated otherwise. When using artificial lighting, I used 2 desk lamps positioned either side of the set and an overhead light to even things out and reduce shadow. The quality of the photographs were too high for the animation programme I was using so on realising this, I then found and image resizing programme through which I processed all of my images before finally uploading to Gifmaker to convert to an animation. In Gifmaker, I was able to choose the speed I wanted my animation to run at – frames per second. As you will see throughout my experiments this was a thing that took a while to get right.