273 - Around We Go

Day 273. The Ferris Wheel at Glenelg Pier turns quite slowly but when you take a few frames using Lapse It, then export those frames to the 5 Seconds app for editing, trim off the unnecessary LapseIt promotion at the end and then finally export it out as an animated GIF file, this what you get...

249 - Hyperlapse

Day 249. Hyperlapse is a type of stop frame animation that uses some additional techniques to remove camera shake, manage the camera exposure settings and so on in order to make the motion smoother.  This was just a little sample I made to try it out. I think it would be interesting to shoot it from a bike or other moving object, rather than walking.

248 - That Lazy Susan

Day 248. Out to dinner with good friends tonight at Chin Chin in Singapore, I made this short animation of the Lazy Susan turntable. Shot with a Nexus 5 using LapseIt for Android, then imported into Photoshop CC as an MP4 file, then converted to an animated GIF and exported back out again.

191 - Mooloolaba Sunrise

Day 191. Waking up this morning in Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast, I stuck the iPad out on the balcony with iMotion running to take a frame every 15 seconds. I really could wake up to this each morning!

169 - Boy Racers

Day 169. While at the Flat Connections Conference this week I had the opportunity to take the students outside one afternoon and show them how to make stop motion videos. This is just a quick little sample we made but the kids went on to do some very cool little videos that showed a great deal of creativity and fun.

078 - Chalk and Talk

Day 78. At school today we had a fun activity for our Year 11 homerooms. As a group, they had to come up with a chalk drawing based on a given theme. After a bit of brainstorming the day before, they created this idea for their artwork. I propped up the iPad and set iMotion to shoot a frame every 5 seconds to create this short video of their work.

I'll bet you can't guess the theme. Partly because I'm not sure we actually met the brief for the theme at all, but mostly because the theme was pretty darn obscure in the first place.

077 - How Time Flies

Day 77. Stopframe animation of a clock. Time was running out to get today's create done so I took 10 stopframes of each numeral on our kitchen clockface using iMotionHD on the iPad, then saved it as an MP4 video file. But rather than a video which just plays once, I wanted it to loop over and over. So I found an app called GifBoom that converts video files to gifs and I got it posted just before midnight for today's daily create.

See how time flies when you're having fun?

Initially, when I posted this from Blogsy on the iPad, the animation didn't work. I had to log into GifBoom on my computer and find the actual embed code and update this post with that. Now it seems to work fine.

076 - 300 Frames

We live just up the street from a frame shop, which sits on the corner of the intersection. While out walking the dog tonight I stopped near the frame shop and was struck with an idea to make a stop frame animation. So this is 300 frames at the frame shop.

It was shot on my Nexus 4 phone using an app called Lapse It Pro, then rendered and exported as 720 mp4 files, editing with a Android Movie Studio, and uploaded to YouTube. It's proof that you can make media on Android but let's be honest, it's still got a lot of catching up to do to compare with the media production capabilities of iOS.

027 - Unnatural Acts

Sitting at my desk, weird things sometimes happen. This is the true story about the forbidden love between an Android phone and an iPad VGA adapter. Now let us never speak of it again.

 

022 - Row your Boat

Day 22. I was at Dragon Boat training this afternoon so I grabbed the iPad mini and used an app called iStopMotion to make a quick little video. Just another simple proof of concept video to show how easy it is to shoot stop motion stuff with an iPad.