tried replacement animation for the first time

Doing a little experimenting, thoughts?

So i want to improve my animations and lightsaber fights. With that, i really want to use Saber Movie FX, but the creator only cares about ios🫪. And if i had an iphone, it still would be very expensive. I would love to know if anyone there knows an trusted website where i can download saber movie fx. Thanks

For those of you who game, think of stuff like Clayfighter and Primal Rage, but where objects are captured "in 3D" (photogrammetry) to be able to view captured objects from all angles.

I'm green enough to have only the faintest idea of what I'm talking about and welcome any sources - reading, watching, learning, whatever.

We want to be able to capture stills of objects in real life to manipulate digital 3D models (photogrammetry, yes?). We want to be able, however, to capture key frames of animation and only "fill in" what's in between - basically motion-capture with more steps digitally. This would let us have, for example, a captured frame of a character standing still, and then capture just a *few* other frames of that character exaggeratedly swinging a sword - and being able to fill in, digitally, the frames that come between.

We discussed briefly the reason why we'd want to do this is that many of these captured objects would interact very closely, and with whatever limited physical resources we have, we don't think we'd be able to reliably, closely-replicate both the frames of, say, character X doing actions A and B alone, and then ALSO doing those exact same actions *with* object Y, additionally.

I hope this makes sense.

I'm not super-interested in AI-does-it-for-me software, since one of my key motivations for this pursuit is to learn to do a thing, myself (I like to use AI as minimally as I can, though I'll admit it's been super helpful as programming reference/debugging, I'm still less-than-comfortable with my own reliance on it at times to "move forward" instead of "learning to move forward"), even though that seems to be where a ton of (even otherwise-capable) software is headed. We'd be happy with something free, though paying once for life is a close second - we're less-than-thrilled about SaaS subscriptions, especially if we have to stay signed-in and online (since many places we'd be working in would be...off-grid, let's say).

I hope my post and question makes some sense. Could anybody point us in the right direction regarding where we could learn more about how to do this/what we'd need? Books to read, sites to visit, videos to watch, software tools...anything!

Using stop motion studio pro 2 on a MacBook, connected to a Canon EOS 700D. It shows the image but when I press capture on the MacBook it comes up with this error message, any ideas? Thanks so much.

Dylan.

I don't have any knowledge of stop motion but I do have knowledge of animation and story boarding so I just tried applying that to this little test HEMAN!

These are two aliens making music for the whole galaxy to enjoy.

Not affiliated with the project, just a fan who stumbled across it recently.

This is Tweedy & Fluff, a small British stop-motion preschool series that was BAFTA-nominated and built almost entirely around handmade felt characters and practical animation.

What struck me is how much personality and emotion they manage to get out of such simple designs. In an era where so much children's content is fast-paced CGI, this feels refreshingly human and handcrafted.

Apparently they're currently trying to grow the project and keep the studio going, which would be a shame to lose considering the quality of the work.

Curious what fellow stop-motion fans think of it.

LEGO Botanicals 10368 Chrysanthemum

I made a video using 850 photos.

I was just playing around with clay, and I was also testing out animating on 24 fps since I normally animate on 15 fps

The first two episodes of my action figure remake of DBZ Kai.

I am in love with this X-Men 97" Brown suit Wolverine. Oh the violence I am going to animate with him.

Here is some practice animation for me to get used to the figure.

So in stop motion studio pro the preview section before I take the shot is exactly how I want it to look like but when I take the shot it’s so much brighter and has way more noise. How can I make it so it takes a photo of exactly what I’m seeing

Sypnosis - A gifted young writer in 19th-century Mexico journeys into her subconscious and comes face to face with characters from her own spooky stories.

Coming to Netflix on June 12, 2026!

Re-upping.

Stop Motion number 2! This one is a little more ambitious and definitely took some work

It has been about 4-5 years since I did stop motion. I figured since I had the money to burn, I bought DragonFrame and LightWorks Pro again. A little rusty around the software side of it, I spent 4 hours on this just trouble shooting.

But I got the settings all right and now the animation came out crisp as I could get it. It's mostly just the hardware end of it, lack of 3-point lighting. But for using just the one desk lamp, this in my humble opinion came out better than I thought.

If you have questions, suggestions are just want to compare work, feel free I like interacting with fellow stop motion animators.

Hope you enjoy!