YouTube Animation - how to upload Stop Motion Ideas for Beginners - More Ideas Here I would always suggest that you practice some basics before launching it to a full blown sotp motion animation story. Items such as setting your stage, lighting , focus and selecting the best stop motion software to suit you are all vital. Once you have mastered these then the below list of stop motion ideas for beginners will help you to get the most fun out of animation. It can be a little confusing when starting out in the world of stop motion animation. Even if you fully understand the concept of stop motion coming up with good ideas can be a challenge for beginners. 1- Everyday objects Stop MotionAny object that can be moved can be used to make a stop motion. The below example of an everyday object stop motion shows how the animator simply reached out to a nearby object and created an engaging animation. The set did not need to be created as the object was already sitting in its natural setting ready to go.
You can use toys or figurines also which can bring such stop motions to life. 2-Whiteboard - Stop Motion This is probably one of my favorites. All you need is a whiteboard and some whiteboard colored pens. You can create some very basic stop motion with this method. However if you are a good artist then the sky is the limit as shown be two examples below , one basic and one advanced. The method is open to all ages which make it a great idea for stop motion beginners. Just make sure you secure both your camera and your whiteboard. 3- Paper Cut-out – Stop Motion This is also a wonderful form of stop motion. It combines a real arts and crafts feel and the stop motion animation approach to great effect. You can either draw shapes or cut images from magazines to create an animated story. You will need a clean well lit table top and a camera suspended overhead. Make sure the camera is pointed directly downward and secured. You will need to make some space for you to work under the camera so ensure it is suspended high enough off the table top.
Watch those shadows also by standing clear of the camera when you take your snapshots. The below is a wonderful example of this approach made by a relative beginner to stop motion. 4 LEGO Stop Motion ( Lego how to ) Probably the most popular method of stop motion among beginners, this is also well with the top 10 stop motion ideas for beginners. You will find millions of lego stop motions or “brickfilms” as they are sometimes called all over Youtube. There is no end to the ideas that can be found out there for this particular format. You can find some tips on this method under “how to make a lego movie” on our pages. I have given two examples below which I think are very creative and a relatively easy place to start. The good thing ( among many good points ) about LEGO is that you have both your set and characters ready made for you to use. Great Gift - Creative and Fun ! 5 - Clay Morphing – Stop Motion The wonderful world of Claymation can never be left out of a top 10 stop motion ideas for beginners by any stretch of the imagination.
There are lots of great ideas within the Claymation animation art form. You don’t have to use armature to create stable characters with which to animate. You can make very simple characters without arms or legs and still have very engaging characters. Think of “Purple and Brown” for example from Aardman. You don’t even need to make characters at all. Simple shapes can be used to morph into other shapes in an artistic and entertaining manner. This is a great way for beginners to get started. 6 – Sticky Notes - Stop Motion This approach has some really intricate examples made by animation students and professional studios. I have given two examples below. The first made professionally and the other done by a hobbyist animator. Both will give you some good ideas for creating stop motions with this approach. 7- Chalk board / Ground – Stop Motion Chalk board stop motion is identical to whiteboard stop motion. So if you do not have access to a whiteboard but do have chalk then you can use the same approach.
And because chalk can be used on the pavement and walls outside ( in a non-destructive manner ) it opens up all sorts of possibilities for working in the open air. 8 –Human – Stop Motion Even though “humans” are animate by nature you can use your friends to create stop motions. Simply asking your subject to take small movements between frame snapshots can give some really interesting results. The most entertaining ones are often dubbed the “human skateboards”. I have given an example of one of the best ones out there on Youtube. 9- Timelapse – Stop Motion Timelapse is in interesting one and quiet different from the others. In this form of stop motion you can simply set your computer / camera to take snapshots and equally spaced intervals over “normally” long period of time to capture things in nature that happen by themselves albeit slowly. Examples are rotting fruit or melting ice. A nice example is shown here of rotting fruit over 74 days!
A picture taken every 40 minutes. 10 Replacement Stop Motion This is more of a method of stop motion rather than a option for beginners. It is however a very easy and widely used form of stop motion that beginners can get really professional results from even at the beginning of their stop motion exploits. Here is the full tutorial on how to make this stop motion using the replacement method. Each Stop Motion Video Tutorial opens a video Pop UP window - Make sure you allow popups for this site so that you can follow the instruction and get some good stop motion ideas on how to make stop motion. For educational specific projects and easy ideas click here. Creative and Fun !Put geeks in a room with LEGO and a camera and you'll soon have more funny fan-made movies than you could shake a colored plastic brick at. We've taken a musical angle on this top ten list, bringing you the very best in LEGOmation and brickfilm tributes to artists and bands that YouTube (and all its wonderfully creative users) has to offer.
Whether you're a LEGO Gaga fan, prefer OK LE-GO or can't get enough John LEGO-non then we've got you covered with this wickedly funny playlist, so read on and let us know your faves, as well as any we've missed, in the comments below. 1. Michael Jackson - Beat It This painstaking recreation of one of Jackson's trademark short film-esque music videos is long at five minutes, but well worth a watch to see the minifig dance sequences emulating the original video. 2. OK Go - Here It Goes Again What the Internets are made for — a viral YouTube music video hit recreated in LEGO and then released to the masses once again via the same platform — how marvelous. Seriously though, how did they make the little LEGO men slide like that? 3. The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There This Fab Four-themed effort starts off fairly static, but gets extras points for attention to detail for the little LEGO cameraman and even more points for the black and white sequence that pulls back to see the clip on a period TV set and screaming female fans.
4. U2 - Sweetest Thing If you didn't think that Bono's musical apology to his wife could get any more sickly sweet than it already is, then check out this LEGO effort that improves on the original video, and not just because Bono isn't actually in it. 5. The Who - My Generation The creator of this video, which takes on The Who's classic ode to teenage angst so well, demonstrates a nice line in edits, as well as some serious rock'n'roll destruction at the end. Who knew minifigs could be so bad? 6. Beastie Boys - Sabotage This is high quality stuff and in fact just the trailer for a larger project to recreate the entire classic music vid with correct camera angles as well as authentic background sets and characters. That's dedication to the LEGOmation cause. Wonder if they get out much? 7. Grease - Summer Nights The song that goes further to explain the male/female divide better than any planetary comparisons ("Was it love at first sight?/Did she put up a fight?") gets the LEGO treatment here to great effect.
It's also somehow easier to believe the minifigs as high school students, as opposed the then 29- and 34-year-old Travolta and Newton-John. 8. Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting This one is a little bit frightening (thanks to those freaking vicious ninjas) but it's also a little bit entertaining and will ensure you're humming "ding-a-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-diing" for the rest of the day — which is not necessarily a bad thing. 9. Metallica - Whiplash Meticulous stop-motion work with "Whiplash" by Metallica as performed by a band in "Lego City" goes someway to capture the energy of the song complete with a headbanging audience and crowd-surfer. 10. ABBA - Take a Chance on Me This fantastic rework of ABBA's soft focus footage for their 1977 hit "Take a Chance on Me" captures the Swedish quartet admirably, even down to their outfits and Agnetha and Anni-Frida's cheeky winks. It's created by YouTube user Cactiphile, who's channel is a great place to visit if you've enjoyed what you've seen above as there's tons more quality brickfilms available to view.