Stop motion set up by John Fletcher (group B)

Threaded puppet (John Fletcher)

Still Images to Animation in Photoshop NB: Earlier versions come with ImageReady which has an Import Folder to Layers option on the File menu. Open Photoshop File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack Select a directory or series of image files. These will then be imported into multiple layers in the same document. Window > Animation The animation timeline will appear. Click the small menu button in the top-right. Select Make Frames from Layers. Each layer will now appear on the timeline as a frame. File > Export Render Video. Useful for creating short animations or for compiling stop-motion frames.

Wax – Freeware video compositing for Windows:

These next links describe making a cutout figure in Flash pre-CS4 and some of the limitations that you might come up against: If you have CS4, there’s an intro to bones here: cs / A good example of animation in Flash 8 that works around the limitations:

Character animation in Motion, really stretching what can be done with mixing 3d objects (which started life as Photoshop files, imported and positioned in 3d space like a house of cards) and 2d keyframed cutouts: Intro to 3d grouped objects in Motion: