Homemade stop-motion

[Spiffy Niffy]

Does anybody else make homemade stop-motion movies? Its wicked fun. I typically use legos, clay , or action figures(when i can get them to stay up).  I  use my cam-corder to make them . All you do is set it to frame record and your all set.

[Cheecky-monkey]

Cool. I use foam rubber, wire armatures, plastic and a three-person crew.

[Sugar_Nads]

Interesting... What model camcorder are you using? I use a Sony VX-1000...

[odinn7]

I used to make films like this years ago (before video cameras were common) with 8mm film and my fathers old camera. Oh, the good old days...

[Spiffy Niffy]

I use a Sony DCR-TRV18  Sugar Nads

[Sugar_Nads]

That's a pretty good model. I've made some great material for my demo real in college using a camcorder similar to that one.

[peter johnson]

Bolex, 16mm & Revere 8mm, both with single-shot capability.
Did a lot of live-action stop-motion back in the day -- as a teenager, it was great fun to make movies of your drag-racing buddies, peeling out & doing wheelies, but with no cars, just sitting on their posteriors on the pavement.
Did a few with aluminum pie-plate UFOs invading & being crushed by Monogram plastic Panzer tanks.  Good stuff!!  Very historic . . .
peter johnson/denny crane

[mr. henry]

BRICKFILMS.com (?) rocks...hundreds of LEGO flicks ranging from pulp fiction to everything and anything.

spiffy, is your stuff available for viewing pleaseure?

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[Sugar_Nads]

Hey, I think you can market those films. They sound hillarious...

[mr. henry]

ever checked out BRICKFILMS.COM???

the stuff people are doing with LEGO stop-animation is incredible, from kids with the spiderman movie kit (cheap webcam) to full-on imac productions that look like million dollar hollywood (a good thing????) productions. i can't recommend the site enought!

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[Zilla]

How do u guys do stop motion on your cameras? Press start then stop or put it through some animation program on a computer?

[Spiffy Niffy]

It might be different depending on the camera. On mine  you go to menu,p effect, then fram-record, then you hit menu once more to select it. When you want to take a picture of a frame, just press the record button , and it will take the single shot.

[peter johnson]

If you get an actual film camera, not a digital or tape camera, many of them have single-shot capability, wherein you can simply click off one frame at a time, whenever you want, and no computers necessary.  12 to 16 clicks/frames equals one second of screen time.  It's laborious, but the results are worth it.
peter johnson/denny crane

[Mitch McAfee]

Zilla, check out  www.stopmotionanimation.com  for all your answers

[Sugar_Nads]

I mostly use Adobe Premiere fo my stop motion projects but someone else on this forum might have an easier method. I have heard however that the single frame capture feature is available on most camcorders costing $2,000 and up.