Stop Motion Animation is a series of consecutive frames that create the illusion of movement when played back as a continuous sequence. Stop Motion Animation can be in the form of a Claymation, Drawmation, Cut-out animation, time-lapse animation, Object animation, and Pinscreen Animation.
Considering frame-rate Motion pictures are shot at 24 frames per second (fps). Sport and High Action video is approximately 60 fps. The Wallace and Gromit 30-minute shorts were shot at close to 20 fps—around 35,000 shots per video. That’s a lot of pictures. Unless you’re a professional with a staff to do the grunt work or have nearly endless amounts of time on your hands, you need to find ways to take fewer shots.
One way, obviously, is to make shorter videos. Another is to choose a lower frame rate. 15 fps looks reasonably smooth, but that’s still a lot of pictures. Because viewers expect stop-motion animation to be jerky, putting together a movie at 10 or 12 fps is hardly a sin.
If you’re importing images into iMovie, you don’t have much choice as the shortest value you can assign to a still image is 0.1 seconds.
(MacWorld, http://www.macworld.com/article/1146623/stop_motion_Mac.html)
The following link will help you get started on creating a stop motion animation.
Create a Stop Motion Animation
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Stop Motion Short Films
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