StanWinstonSchool - Stop-Motion Character Performance

01:24:26 | MP4 | Audio: aac 44100 Hz stereo | Video: h264 yuv420p 1280x720 24.00 fps | 1.45 GB

In this lesson Animator & Visual Effects Artist award winning special visual effects cameraman author and all around genius Mark Sawicki shows us how to use Stop Motion Pro software and a Terminator collectible figure to create a character performance using the stop motion animation technique.

Using tools that are readily available to even the amateur filmmaker Mark shows you how you can improve your character animation through rudimentary motion-capture & in-camera rear-projection compositing.

Lesson highlights:

Overcoming limitations of an off-the-shelf collectible

How to capture a live-action performance to guide animation

How to set-up the figure and camera for animation

Rear-projection in-camera compositing