Let's Get Creative: Advanced Stop-Motion Animation Techniques

Completed by 55 learners

Ages 10-15

Live One-Time Class

Learn advanced stop motion techniques such as how to jump, lip syncing audio and set construction.

Brenton Fisher

Average rating:

4.9

Number of reviews:

(680 reviews)

Live video meetings

Meets once

3-12 learners per class

55 min

About Learning Overview Teacher Reviews

What's included

1 live meeting

55 mins in-class hours

Class Experience

Let's get ADVANCED! Whether you are using lego characters or character of another sort, I will show you how to bring your animation game to the next level through using the masking tool, adding faces and lip syncing your audio as well as how to use the green/blue screen and make your world feel like a full 360 degree world, all within the Stop Motion Studio Pro App. The first half of the class will be centered around building our knowledge of these techniques and now to use the Stop Motion Studio Pro App to create our scenes. The second half of the class will be devoted to putting into practice these techniques and I will be providing support and guidance to your student as they work on their scene. I recommend each animator animate at a frame rate of at least 10-12 frames per second for their videos. 

Please be to class on time so that we can have the most time possible for implementation and feedback.  

This class has a very specific schedule and, depending on which week of the month you sign up, the class will be different and use different resources:

1st week of the month: Smoothing out our Animations: learning how to ease in and out. 
needed: one character and one vehicle on wheels (any vehicle on wheels will do)

2nd week of the month: Masking: the art of jumping, throwing or flying. 
needed: mounting putty/sticky tack and something to hold them up like additional lego bricks. 

3rd week of the month: 

4th week of the month:

Learning Goals

- Understand the fundamentals behind "Masking" to erase particular parts of your scene to create the illusion of things levitating. 
- Create background frames to support the Masking technique.
- Develop a deeper understanding of post production editing.
- Better understand how to use the drawing tool to apply shadows in our videos.

Other Details

Supply List

We will be using the application Stop Motion Studio Pro that can be purchased for $4.99 in your mobile device's App Store, but your student may use any program that they are familiar with using for stop motion.  Please ensure that your student's device and program are both functioning prior to class starting.  Please have your student bring at least one toy or figurine that they would like to have come alive as well as any props they would like to include. 

The remote shutter control is entirely optional but the stand for your device should be required to properly perform the techniques in this lesson.

1 file available upon enrollment

External Resources

In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:

Meet the teacher

Brenton Fisher

Joined June, 2020

4.9

680reviews

Profile

Teacher expertise and credentials

My name is Brenton (Machete Ninja Star) Fisher.  Galaxy defending archaeologist, cowboy and raptor trainer!  I have a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and have been educating elementary age children and teenagers online for six years.  I have extensive experience teaching English as a second language and am certified in TESOL.

The courses I teach here on Outschool follow some of my favorite pastimes and passions in life!  Combining interests like Pokémon, LEGO, athletics, video games, and more has given me the opportunity to develop learning programs that are not only educational, but incredibly fun and entertaining as well.  I think it is wonderful to allow a child to learn without feeling like it takes work or effort.