Stop Motion Cartoon Maker - Animate Photos & Videos

The Stop Motion Cartoon Maker app is a powerful and user-friendly tool that empowers you to create captivating cartoons, animations, and time-lapse videos. It simplifies the process of turning a series of photographs into a finished visual masterpiece, allowing both beginners and seasoned animators to bring their creative visions to life.

It enables users to capture a sequence of images that can be compiled into a video, resulting in a finished cartoon, animation, or time-lapse production. With the Stop Motion app, you can easily produce your own cartoons or stop-motion animations like the professionals! It offers straightforward shooting and editing, making it accessible for novice animators.

Animation creation and mixed media

Capture images of clay figures, Lego constructions, illustrations, and produce your unique cartoons.Time-lapse photography can be performed using various subjects such as Lego, clay projects, drawings, sketches, and other objects. The app includes a special mode featuring a translucent overlay on the current frame in the camera, allowing you to align objects and precisely position them to achieve the desired movement in the frame. We aimed for user-friendly navigation within the app so that even a 5-year-old could create their own cartoon. It's an excellent way for parents and children to spend quality time together, collaborating on creative projects. Additionally, it's great for creating interesting content for personal blogs, allowing you to share your animations and engage with your audience.

Stop motion videos

Easily transform your photos into impressive videos. Utilize your photo gallery or take pictures frame by frame to generate movement. Then, simply choose the images you want to include in your animation, adjust the speed, and create your video! You can store the final video on your smartphone.

The primary features of the application include:

- Frame-by-frame photo capture with the option to merge the images into a video;

- Horizontal and vertical screen orientation options;

- Image zooming and transparency adjustments for the previous frame;

- Vocalization choices during the animation process: manual or automatic;

- Playback of the footage;

- Setting the frame rate;

- Exporting streams to video format;

The app offers subscription plans that unlock premium functions. Here are the key details:

Payment: Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account upon confirmation of purchase.

Auto-Renewal: Subscriptions automatically renew unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.

Renewal Charges: Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be clearly identified.

Subscription Management: You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by accessing your Account Settings after purchase.

Free Trial: If a free trial period is offered, any unused portion of it will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription.

Pricing: The price of the subscription may vary depending on your location.

For Aspiring Animators

With the Stop Motion app, you can effortlessly create your own cartoons and stop-motion animations, just like the professionals. The shooting and editing processes are designed to be intuitive, making it accessible even for those new to animation. Whether you're a child with a vivid imagination or an adult looking to explore a new creative outlet, this app provides a seamless experience.

You can use a wide range of materials to create your animations. Take photos of plasticine sculptures, Lego creations, drawings, sketches, or any objects you like. Time-lapse photography is also made easy, enabling you to capture the slow transformation of various subjects and accelerate them into engaging videos.

The app offers a unique feature of a translucent overlay on the current camera frame. This allows you to precisely align objects and determine their positioning to achieve the desired movement within the frame. It's a valuable tool for creating smooth and realistic animations.

ARTICAL--Stop motion animation explained: definition, types and techniques.

Stop motion animation is a simple yet effective way to bring the everyday to life. Clever camera tricks and an eye for the minute details combine to create captivating moving images. Find out more about the history of stop motion and the techniques used to capture the magic.

What is stop motion animation?

Stop motion animation is an advanced flipbook-style form of animation. It involves photographing and then physically manipulating objects within your frame. As each frame is played in sequence, the technique creates the effect of an object moving itself. Stop motion animation is a technique whose secret lies between each frame of the action. Effortlessly simple in its final form, the flow and flourish of stop motion photography belies the painstaking attention to detail being paid between each snap of the set-up.

It may be a comparatively low-budget technique against the cream of the Hollywood crop, but the results speak for themselves in terms of originality, form and style - and with decades of successful “stop-go” animations becoming British daytime TV institutions and Oscar winners alike, stop motion animation is a widely celebrated art form too.

History of stop motion animation.

The proliferation of ‘snap-it-and-forget-it’ via digital cameras and smartphones has brought the potential for stop motion into households across the world, but as the 20th century dawned the art form was reserved for those with the budget and time to painstakingly produce it.

Beginning with what’s thought to be the very first entry in the genre, The Humpty Dumpty Circus was released in 1898. Creators J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith used a variety of children’s toys - long before Woody and Buzz arrived on the animated scene - to depict the hidden lives of circus performers.

Wladyslaw Starewicz was another pioneer of the form, producing a series of works throughout the 1910s and 1920s, most notably Lucanas Cervus. The title, from the Latin for ‘stag beetle’, used a variety of wee beasties which Starewicz had taxidermised into an all-star cast. The results shocked audiences into thinking the animator had trained them to wander about on hind legs, carrying household objects around as these characters do.

Willis O’Brien was the mastermind behind the animation for the cinematic icon King Kong in his 1933 big screen adventure - but O’Brien mastered the trade for a film released in 1925 called The Lost World. Based on the Arthur Conan Doyle novel of the same name, the film depicts a cast of explorers in search of a band of dinosaurs which still roam the earth, mixing mind-blowing effects and some clever film editing.

O’Brien mentored a man whose work would go on to define this era of special effects in cinema. Ray Harryhausen was a one-man machine whose work on the likes of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and 20 Million Miles to Earth propelled 1950s cinema into a pulpy golden age. Later work on The Golden Voyage of Sinbad and Clash of the Titans (1981) is absolutely essential viewing.

As the medium evolved it spread further into the mainstream, including TV and music videos. Aardman Animations was responsible for globe-gripping examples of both. They created the claymation character Morph, first seen interacting with British broadcasting legend Tony Hart on our screens each week before getting his own series. Aardman was also the effects team behind Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer - a whirlwind of stop motion effects encapsulated into the video for one pop song and a touchstone of 1980s nostalgia.

What you’ll need for stop motion animation.

To get started on creating your own mini masterpieces you’ll need:

Digital camera. Even a smartphone camera will do - obviously the higher in quality, the better.

Stand/mount. An essential part of the operation, you’ll need to mount the camera so it remains perfectly still throughout the production process. Luckily these aren’t expensive.

Editing software. Again, your phone will do in a pinch - but you’ll need video editing software that can sequence your images and transfer the results as a whole file.

Objects to film. Whether you’re crafting intricate backdrops a la Reiniger or simply making household objects come to life, grab a few props and start shooting.

How to shoot in stop-motion.

Although the process is pretty simple, there are several things to watch out for so you can shoot comfortably and be assured of the best results possible.

Firmly frame your subject. Make sure you’re shooting at an angle that fits your subjects without letting in anything you don’t want to include. Objects wandering in or around the edge of a shot will affect the final product.

Adjust the lighting. Shoot where the light is completely under your control - for example, under a desk light if you’re shooting two-dimensional objects. Changes to lighting over time will create an inconsistency to your levels as the shoot goes on on.

Steady your shots. Once your camera is set up, if at all possible, don’t touch it again until your sequence is finished. Use a remote or a timer to snap each frame of the sequence, before resetting for a new angle or scene.

Decide on your frame rate. How long do you want to keep a single image in shot? At 24 frames per second, you’ll need 24 images - whether that’s fewer different images during slow moments or up to 24 different frames to illustrate faster movements.

Edit. Move images into a sequencer and edit on the fly or dump the whole lot at the end of the shoot. Then you can go to town on things like fast vs slow motion and any accompanying sound or music.

Comments

This is the best stop motion app I have ever used. there is a pro version, but you dont need to buy it to make good animations as there are a lot of features to use. for example, an onion layer, which basically shows you the image before, and it is VERY useful to make smoother animations. You do need to watch an ad to actually export the animation, but it is one ad and there arent any random ads that show up while you're animating. overall a really solid stop animation app for free. ✌️

By far, it is the best stop motion app I've seen. They have the pro version, and it's not really expensive and would be well worth the money at least to help these app engineers out. They've made a very good app, even non pro, and they really seem to appreciate those who try their app. keep up the good work, and I have some app ideas in mind, which could be the next X, but I don't know how to do all that. I'll stick to making short stop motions.

i was use it this animation aplication for somedays,in my perspective is good enough,a flawness,it's sound that just one sound aviable. Two sound is fair enogh for a new animator aplication (free one) in developing time. There are had lot potency this animation aplication. I was into again to google playstore,then i saw there's fixed for the sound,i tried and it's working good. Thanks for your team! By the way please lifting quality video for non pro turn out to 1080🙏

This is a pretty bad stop go video maker. The picture part is OK but in the moment you try to add any sound or voice over it just turns in a complete nightmare. Nothing syncs probably, you can't see the picture parts at the same time. Really bad. I would make a video about it how bad it is but it would need to be a silent movie.

Great app! I would love to see a feature added where you can take all sorts of sound effects and more to use in the app like Lightsabers, Blasters, Explosives and their explosions, sound of Tie Fighters, X-Wings, Starfighters, character voice lines, music, etc from Star Wars and other animated series and movies as preset sounds of all kinds. It would make using sounds easier. In order for that to work, there should be a "Sounds", "Visual Effects", and "Voice Lines" icons for ease of use.

I just started using this app, and it's giving me trouble already. I had to insert a bunch of photos for a science stop motion project, and it put ALL of my photos out of order. I saw someone reply that you can change the order. But if you're doing stop motion, all the frames look the same, and I'm not going to be sitting here, wasting my time, putting them all back in order. This app was supposed to help me save time, not waste it.