Therefore I recommend using a continuous lighting kit. The subtle changes in light will result in flickering on your stop motion animation. Lighting – natural light from a window will do a grand job at lighting your image HOWEVER you’ll be amazed at how quickly light changes. I use the Lensband Zoom Lens Creep Reducer. The lens band will keep the camera lens in a fixed place. I’ve shot an entire sequence before only to discover the lens on my camera ‘zoomed’ in slightly. Heavy lenses on DSLR cameras can ‘creep’ meaning they’ll extend or zoom unintentionally. Really Nice to Have KitĪ Lens Band (for overhead shots) – I only recently discovered this simple but effective piece of kit. For shooting and editing, Stop Motion Studio on iOS and Android is perfectly good for simple animations. For my DSLR I’ve tested the VILTROX JY-710 2.4GHZ Wireless Remote Shutter Controller, which works well.Įditing Software – I use Adobe Premiere Pro. For my smartphone, I use this Wireless Bluetooth Remote Shutter Release. A remote or tethered shutter release is a useful addition to your kit. Remote control shutter release – even touching the camera to take an image can cause the camera to move and potentially ruin your stop motion animation. For shooting with a mobile phone, use a tripod similar to this Tryone Gooseneck Phone Holder. I’m currently using the Manfrotto 131DB Horizontal Double Head Accessory Arm for my DSLR. You’ll also need a boom extension arm if you’re creating overhead animations. Without a tripod, your stop motion video animation will literally be all over the place and the effect won’t work. Just make sure you have the right equipment from the outset and you’ll save yourself a lot of time and hassle.īelow you’ll find my essential stop motion animation kit and also items that are ‘nice to have’ in your stop motion animation toolbox.Ĭamera – I use a Canon 60D DSLR but you can also shoot stop motion animation on your smartphone camera too. Of course, TVP can use a few input video card such as "bluefish" cards, which will handle HD video or grab, but it's very pricy compared to a simple camera.Getting started with stop motion animation is really quite simple. (nobody on the phone, very few informations through internet forms, only vendors during festials. The biggest deal (IMO) is not the development part, but how to find an interlocutor which can help regarding the Nikon/Canon Dev Kit. So it's not technically impossible, but it requires a lot of time and technical support.Īt the moment, I asked several time Nikon about a Development Kit, but unfortunalety I had no answer. (not easy, because we can't buy every new material. Also, an other problem is (at least for Canon) that each new camera on the market seems to work slightly differently that the previous one, so the plug-in needs to be tested, and sometimes rewritten as soon as a new camera appears on the market. Without the Dev Kit, it's quite impossible to retrieve datas (images) from the Cameras and to put them into TVP Animation. Those informations are mostly contained in the camera Development Kit. To do a such plug-in, we firstly need some explanations to answer the question : "how make the camera and the software communicate ?". ( I also have had such request from the Gobelin school in Paris, because they usually use Nikon. You are right to ask, especially since the most used cameras are usually Nikon and Canon. What gives me hope is seeing that some applications like iStopMotion and Dragon Stop Motion have support for Nikon still cameras (and others) so it seems to me it is possible, but maybe unlikely until version 10 or. Proposed here may be ridiculously difficult to program or even impossible. Keep in mind that I don't understand how the software works (I have no understanding of programming whatsoever I'm just a simple cartoonist) so what is being Īre there plans to develop a plug-in to use Nikon D80 or similar cameras in the Nikon line ? Is this possible ? I'm getting inquiries from some students wanting to use their Nikon cameras for frame capture with TVP (for stop motion). I'm curious about this older request from William. I use Camera Control Pro 2 to interface my notebook with the Nikon as it looks very similar to what you are trying to accomplish with the Canon plugin and TVP are there any plans to develop Nikon plugin with similar functionality of Canon plugin? can this be accomplished? Masterchief wrote:I use Nikon D40 digital SLR camera.
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