| My goal for this project was to create a stop motion animation that showed my son Joey transforming into a fictional superhero called the “Green Gecko”. He dressed up as a Gecko superhero on Halloween and I thought it would be fun to capture his actions. My method to create the stop-motion was to use the burst technique on the iPhone camera. This allowed me to capture images of Joey crawling in rapid succession. I exported the burst images from my phone to my computer and imported the images into Stop Motion Studio.
For the title screen, I used a royalty-free comic book image from BigStock.com. I created the title screen in Photoshop. I saved one image for each letter of “Green Gecko”. When I imported the images into Stop Motion Studio, I was able to get this cool animation effect. The credit screen was a theme card from Stop Motion Studio and the audio I used also came from Stop Motion Studio. The video is set as 7 frames per second.
I enjoyed working with Joey and capturing his movements. He was very interested in seeing the final product. The challenge was that I captured the crawling with the Gecko costume and the non-costume crawling on two different days. The lighting was different and the camera positioning was slightly different.
I probably would use the Stop Motion in the future as a way to create an interesting digital story.
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