iStopMotion

For more than a century, stop motion animation has made the filmmakers' fantasies come true. Whether you just want to spend a magical weekend with your kids or if you're a serious animator, now it's time to tell your story, frame by frame with iStopMotion, like many thousands of parents, kids, teachers, brick movies, professional animators and everyone interested in this fascinating movie making technique.

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What is iStopMotion?

For more than a century, stop motion animation has made the filmmakers' fantasies come true. Whether you just want to spend a magical weekend with your kids or if you're a serious animator, now it's time to tell your story, frame by frame with iStopMotion, like many thousands of parents, kids, teachers, brick movies, professional animators and everyone interested in this fascinating movie making technique.

CORE FEATURES

Onion skinning

See what the animation will look like before capturing the frame.

Instant playback

Watch your animation before you finish to see if it worked the way you wanted it to.

Time lapse

Speed up slow processes, such as a blooming flower or sunset.

Flipbook Printing

Print your animations in a format that easily folds into a flip book to take them with you.

Tilt change filter

A popular effect lately, make your scene look like a miniature.

Chroma Keying

Animate dinosaurs in real background images or movies or place an actor in an animated scene.

Foreground

Overlay your animation on an image or video with transparency for amazing effects.

Rotoscope

Use another movie as a guide to your animation to get the right moves.

Sound waveform

Use a pre-recorded soundtrack and animate it, for example, to create a music video.

Animated Gif

Up to 200 frames can now be exported to an animated GIF currently so popular on the Internet because it can be used in email and on many platforms that allow you to upload images.

Screenshot

Capture anything on the screen and turn it into an animated or time-lapse movie. For example, watch Canadian artist Cody Creed create a drawing in the PhotoShop.

Shares

iStopMotion records and stores each frame individually for maximum quality and can export to any format supported by OS X, including Full HD and Apple ProRes.

iStopMotion remote camera

Turn your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch into a versatile HD camera. The iStopMotion Remote Camera, available for free from the App Store, streams a live video feed via Wi-Fi and supports 1080p remote capture.

Most Supported Cameras

iStopMotion can use many video cameras, USB webcams, video capture devices, digital cameras with support for OS X capture technologies, as well as CANON and Nikon DSLR cameras.

Edition

iStopMotion focuses and enhances the art of capturing unique frames. Export to iMovie, Final Cut Pro X, or another video editing app to edit, add titles, and sound effects.

System requirements

MacOS 10.11 or higher

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