Learn to animate and create your own classic animation, one frame at a time.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Modern Classic Animator Javan Ivey
Deburuman showed us how he shot classic animation on film. Javan Ivey is creating a wide range of animation using whatever technology is appropriate and affordable. These two documentaries from IndyMogul.com show him in his do it yourself animation studio. Highly inspiring!
Do It Yourself Animation Studio
Easy Tips for Stop Motion Animation
IndyMogul.com's main focus is low budget live action movie making.
I have another site devoted to animation - How-To-Make-Your-Own-Animation.com. It presents making classic animation in a different way - better organized than with a blog.
Start creating your own classic animation!
This 13 minute movie introduces animation fundamentals and shows you how to start animating with your PC and a webcam, video or DV camera using StopMotion Station from StopMotion-Software.com.
A shameless self-promotion movie that shows part of what I have done and what I'm about. Beware! At the end of the movie, I sing my "Moviemaker's Lament" while performing a movie. That's what you see in the screenshot - as I punch keys, I jump around in the movies I have on the system.
The whole purpose of this blog is to get you to create your own classic animation, preferably using my software, which is at StopMotion-Software.com. If you've made a movie you're proud of, using any of my shareware or freeware programs, please let me know and I'd be glad to post it here and help you share it with the world.
I am about as old as the transistor and have been watching movies for about half of their existence. I started playing wih movie cameras and projectors about 1960, and with the early microcomputers about 1978. I love combining knowledge and technology to create tools for moviemaking and especially animation, filling in the gaps I see that prevent me from making full use of hardware, software, and ideas.