2A: Stop Motion Animation

• Harryhausen: The Lost World, King Kong and Jason and the Argonauts
• Lucky Strike
• Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer
• Aardman Animation: The Wrong Trousers
• Svankmajer
• Brothers Quay

DEMO of iStopMotion

Note:  Here's a tutorial on using Photoshop to import images for stop motion

2B: Adding sound to your animation

Sound adds very much to the atmosphere and general tone of the animation.

Examples:

DEMO Adobe Premiere and its sound editing ability

NOTES:
Before you load the images into photoshop, make a blank video layer and then change the document settings to the appropriate length and frames per second...THEN import your images as a video layer from a file.

What happens if you change it after the fact, it drops the frames in-between.

Links to help with Premiere:

• Adobe Premiere CS4
• Tutorial on Adding Sound
• Premiere Tutorials
  

Stop Motion Software

iStopmotion is grand for the mac.

For PC users, check out
http://stopmotionworks.com/stopmosoftwr.htm

And of course, sourceforge,net

AnimatorDV looks promising. We'll wait for our itinerant reviewers to weigh in.