Stop Motion
Stop motion animation consists of a series of pictures played at 12 frames per second. It creates the illusion that it is moving, its a trick of the eye. Animation is a process in which still images MOVE, each is shot on film one at a time and it shown at the rate of 24fps making the pictures appear to move.
Videos in the UK are shown at 25fps, and video in the US are shown at 29.97fps.
Persistence of Vision
This is where our brain holds onto an image for a fraction of a second and if it sees a series of still images very quickly one after another, the images appear to move.
The Moving Hand Theory
This is where we are tricked into seeing moving images at a rate of 12fps resulting in the FLICKER FUSION THRESHOLD.
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The Process of what I did
First off I drew an brief storyboard of what was going to happen in my animation.
Then I started to draw out my animation on multiple pieces of A6 paper, making each one a little different from the one before, so the stickman's body gradually got bigger and bigger in each photo, until eventually it changed into a BANG and then two stickmen appear, and then the process was the same their bodies got bigger in each photo.
Then to actually create the animation I used iStopMotion. I lined up each piece of paper so it would look like the one before, it was only a little difficult at the paper wasn't all the same size. Then I captured each photograph twice. It only took about 5 minutes to capture all the frames and about 25 minutes to draw all my photographs.
