Claymation: what software to use? at DVinfo.net

Andrei Petrik · September 9th, 2005, 07:12 PM

Hi,
I recently saw a very impressive claymation clip.
Check it out here: http://spikedhumor.com/Article.aspx?id=2160

What is the process of capturing and editing this type of work? Most logical(as it seems to me) is using a digital camera and capture a frame each time there is a change in the scene. Also, what software would you use to merge all the frame together? I know Premiere can do it, but thats a lot of seperate frames to process.

Nick Hiltgen · September 10th, 2005, 12:32 AM

Shake works but that might be a little beyond the average uerds price range.

Andrei Petrik · September 23rd, 2005, 05:49 PM

Anyone else got any interesting input or methods of how to create nice claymation?

Giroud Francois · September 24th, 2005, 11:14 AM

there are thousand of programs able to merge a serie of pictures into a movie.
premiere is nice (especially if you are doing all the editing with) but you can even find free utilities to do this.
you will just need at worse to rename your pictures to get a suite of numbers.
here too, you could find a lot of free/cheap utilities doing this (as Lupas rename)
if you use a digital camera, just take care to use it on manual setting (automatic could give you very different exposure from one frame to another) and do not shoot with too big resolution (2 Megapixel is a lot already).
Try to get several cameras to shoot the same scene from different point of view without having to move the cams.
You can avantageously use the methode of interpolating pictures (usually used to create slowmotion) to double the final number of picture.
for good lights, you can find in surplus stores some optical fibers that allows precises spotlight with advantage of cold light.(see surplussched)

John C. Chu · September 25th, 2005, 07:59 AM

If you were on the Mac....

http://www.istopmotion.com/

This seems like a pretty mature program.

September 9th, 2005, 07:12 PM	#1
Andrei Petrik Regular Crew Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Toronto Posts: 45	Claymation: what software to use? Hi, I recently saw a very impressive claymation clip. Check it out here: http://spikedhumor.com/Article.aspx?id=2160 What is the process of capturing and editing this type of work? Most logical(as it seems to me) is using a digital camera and capture a frame each time there is a change in the scene. Also, what software would you use to merge all the frame together? I know Premiere can do it, but thats a lot of seperate frames to process. __________________ XL1s - P4 2.53Ghz - 1GB RAM - DVstorm2 - PPro 1.5 - AE 6.5

September 10th, 2005, 12:32 AM	#2
Nick Hiltgen Trustee Join Date: May 2003 Location: Atlanta GA Posts: 1,427	Shake works but that might be a little beyond the average uerds price range. __________________ I have a dream that one day canon will release a 35mm ef to xl adapter and I'll have iris control and a 35mm dof of all my ef lenses, and it will be awesome...

September 23rd, 2005, 05:49 PM	#3
Andrei Petrik Regular Crew Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Toronto Posts: 45	Anyone else got any interesting input or methods of how to create nice claymation? __________________ XL1s - P4 2.53Ghz - 1GB RAM - DVstorm2 - PPro 1.5 - AE 6.5

September 24th, 2005, 11:14 AM	#4
Giroud Francois Inner Circle Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: switzerland Posts: 2,133	there are thousand of programs able to merge a serie of pictures into a movie. premiere is nice (especially if you are doing all the editing with) but you can even find free utilities to do this. you will just need at worse to rename your pictures to get a suite of numbers. here too, you could find a lot of free/cheap utilities doing this (as Lupas rename) if you use a digital camera, just take care to use it on manual setting (automatic could give you very different exposure from one frame to another) and do not shoot with too big resolution (2 Megapixel is a lot already). Try to get several cameras to shoot the same scene from different point of view without having to move the cams. You can avantageously use the methode of interpolating pictures (usually used to create slowmotion) to double the final number of picture. for good lights, you can find in surplus stores some optical fibers that allows precises spotlight with advantage of cold light.(see surplussched)

September 25th, 2005, 07:59 AM	#5
John C. Chu Major Player Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Rego Park , NYC Posts: 665	If you were on the Mac.... http://www.istopmotion.com/ This seems like a pretty mature program.