Stopmotion Explosion Blog

The ModiBot Kickstarter Campaign has successfully funded. Thanks for your support! Preordering now unlocks additional figures. A few weeks back, I met Wayne Losey. Wayne and his partner Tucker Johnson have been working on an exciting project that stop-motion animators are going to love. The ModiBot is a brand-new posable figure. Like other building toys, ModiBots arrive as a pile of parts that snap together quickly. One ModiBot kit can be combined with other ModiBots to create new figures. Due to the flexible design and large assortment of accessories, the ModiBot is going to become a favorite character for animators everywhere. ModiBots...

Don't be a n00b! Apply these techniques and your animated films will be better, get more likes, and amaze your audience. Animation Flicker A lot of stop motion films suffer from flicker issues. If you're experiencing this, check two things: Is the camera auto-exposure turned on? This is the number-one flicker culprit. Auto-exposure automatically brightens the camera image if the environment becomes dark, which is every time your hand moves in front of the camera. When the camera tries to compensate by making the image brighter, you see flicker in the frames when they're played back. Turning the auto exposure...

Get inspired by amazing stop motion recreations of popular games! These are recreations of games you may have played yourself. Sometimes the creators make a video screen-capture of a gaming session, with a program like FRAPS, and base their animated action off this reference. Some are made with no reference, but as with any complicated project a good deal of planning ahead makes the animation go smoothly. Bricks of War - LEGO Gears of War redone in LEGO. An insanely huge LEGO collection allows Alex Kobbs, the creator of this film, to build an insanely huge (and realistic!) set. You...

Watch the first Stopmotion Explosion promo video and learn about the animation kit.