10 Tips on How to Make a Stop Motion Animation

Published on September 4, 2007 by Sam and Rokko in Animation
10 Tips on How to Make a Stop Motion Animation

Ever wanted to test your skills on making a short animation?

  1. Find a nice background, maybe a wall or a picture

  2. Use a good quality camera
  3. Use a lamp facing your stop motion scene for good lighting
  4. Use an easy thing to move for your actors such as plastacine or Lego
  5. In between your pictures don’t move your actors to much
  6. Add music or sound effects to keep your audience interested
  7. Plan an interesting story line; don’t make it up as you go along
  8. Try being creative, move your props not just your actors
  9. When your finished get it out there! Upload it to video hosting websites like
    Kleep
    or
    Youtube.

  10. Have fun!
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7 Comments

Neal, posted this comment on Jul 14th, 2008

What is the reccomended FPS?

kelly, posted this comment on Nov 14th, 2008

lololololthanks
thatll help my media project lol rehgehsdmnfgdhbgfsj

BOBERT, posted this comment on Jan 30th, 2009

OMFGASHDVI RA;RDV SO COOL

BOBERT, posted this comment on Jan 30th, 2009

DUDE TY SO MUCH I HAD NO CLUE HOW TO MAKE ONE UNTIL I SAW THIS

BRANDON, posted this comment on Feb 16th, 2009

Thank you like so much. It’s so much better then my last stop motion. Thank you again so much!

Lisa, posted this comment on May 21st, 2009

oh this is just plain not helpful. This is stuff every noob already knows. what a joke

Noah, posted this comment on Jun 25th, 2009

This really didn’t tell me anything I didn’t know.
The 10th isn’t even a tip.
Here’s a tip for an aspiring stop animator:
Have pauses between actions
Leave a few still frames between steps in a walk cycle.
It will make the animation look more realistic.

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