In a recent lesson with 7th graders, students used iStopMotion video creation App on the iPad to assess their ability to derive the formula for a circle. Check out the gorgeous time lapse movies over on . Stop motion is a perfect way for students to slow down steps in math to demonstrate their understanding of abstract concepts. IStopMotion can also can be used in professional environments, with cameras other than the iSight to produce very sophisticated results. Focus is particularly important when using an iSight, as it's auto focus will often need to be manually corrected, especially during close-ups. IStopMotion also gives you great control over your camera, include the image hue and saturation, color balance, and Focus. The program also gives you the choice to save image sequences as unique TIFF or PICT files, sequentially numbered, for later editing or importing into the program of your choice. without even stopping the recording! You can even add special effects this way, as I did with my Darth Vader movie. For instance if you accidently captured a bit of your hand in a shot, you can switch to Photoshop to remove the mistake, than switch back to iStopMotion, replacing the bad capture with your cleaned up one. It gives you the option to edit a recorded frame with an external program such as Photoshop. There are even more great features of iStopMotion. The remote camera is connected via a Wi-Fi connection. Again, this helps you imagine how the scene will look once animated, and gives you an easy reference to make any adjustments if necessary. iStopMotion Remote Camera allows the use of the camera of an iPhone (4 or newer) or iPad (2 or newer) as a remote camera for iStopMotion running on iOS. "Blinking" flashes the current, live image and the previously recorded image at a user-set interval.You can move your objects and then see in real time how far you moved them in relation to the most recent pictures. Onion skinning: gives you the ability to look back at up to five previous frames, each superimposed over the other.Live Video Overlay: Controls how much of the last frame vs how much of the live camera you see.It was an arduous process, even worse was having to wait until the film was developed to see how things turned out! Recording animations directly to your hard drive, without any of the hassles of trying to do it on film is a dream come true for any animator, and Boinx has made it even better by adding lots of cool and extremely useful features. ![]() Now when I was a wee geek, I used to make stop motion films on Super 8 and 16 mm film.
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