A pro customer requested this feature for quickly and easily creating zooms and pans with a motion controlled camera that they use to record cartoons. Sometimes it is handy to be able to record a sequence of a specific number of frames in real time. Before this, one of the biggest challenges was to animate dialog and get the mouth movement right. This video is displayed alongside the animation window or composed into the animation video transparently. Instead of painstakingly planning your animation and creating an “x-sheet”, simply load in a cue video to guide your animation.
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Meanwhile the flexibility of the feature brings ambitious movie ideas into the reach of the ambitious hobbyist and the pro. Kids can have their toys walk on the moon or explore a coral reef deep down in the ocean. An example for this is the chroma keying that provides a virtual stage. It was an ambitious goal, but we think we achieved it with iStopMotion 2”, says Florian Albrecht, responsible for iStopMotion’s development at Boinx Software. “Our goal was to add new capabilities that appeal to professionals while keeping it so easy that kindergarden kids love to use it.
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A special education edition with a multi-user license key is available for educational institutions. The Pro edition is for the animator who makes money (or plans to) with stop motion animation. The Express version is for the serious hobbyist animator, with all the great stuff appreciated by pro animators at a reasonable price. The Home edition is for the family, where the parents want to spend a great weekend with their kids. IStopMotion 2 comes in three flavors, targeting different users. Features such as virtual stages, which allow an animator to place the objects into a prerecorded background, rotoscoping, where the animator loads in a video that guides him in the animation, the ability to record a certain number of frames in real time and support for HD cameras, take stop motion animation on the Mac to a whole new level.
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Download the utility from the official App Store to get acquainted with iStopMotion 2 opportunities right now.After over 2 years of development and a lengthy public test phase, iStopMotion 2 is ready for prime time and of course, Mac OS X Leopard. To use this tool anyone could need a small tutorial. Some visitors of the exhibition noted that some developer’s terms were not clear to the viewers, for example, « key frames». Nowadays many people of all over the world are making their own per-frame animations with Lego figures and other "heroes." On the other hand, it isn’t clear how easy it will be to shoot these videos without developer’s instructions like in the course of the demonstration. In some ways this product can be a serious tool for enthusiasts of some directions.
The iStopMotion 2 function is quite simple in terms of describing – to photograph the scene at the right moments and glue received frames in smoother animation. Perhaps the level of animation isn’t good like in masterpieces like " Wallace and Gromit" but this technology earned the title of the "Best of Exhibits" among software products at the exhibition. All visitors of the exhibition made animation keyframes itself while the developers have changed the position of plasticine characters according to the scenario. On Boinx Software’s stand developers demonstrated an animated film shot on the example of plasticine fellows. Especially remarkable that iStopMotion 2 is a brand new product with an active use of the unique features of iOS operating system and Apple iPad. Almost all technologies that attracted the attention of a huge audience at this year Macworld/iWorld are implemented in this product. Boinx Software made a second version of « iStopMotion 2» for one frame at a time animation on iPad.
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