Ideas on how to start off making stop motion animations?

Got a sony ericson with 3.2mp camera, but dno how to make a decent stop motion, what it could be about, or what things to use in it, like clay people or whatever and not sure what program to do it on, any free ones that are good would be cool.Ideas on how to start off making stop motion animations?Two sites you should check out are stopmotionanimation.com and animateclay.com



Both have message boards filled with stop motion animators helping eachother out. Stopmotionanimation.com even have a handbook section that has basic answers and info on a variety of stop motion topics (armatures, sets, cameras, etc)



http://www.stopmotionanimation.com/handb鈥?/a>





AnimateClay.com also has some good beginner tutorials:



http://www.animateclay.com/index.php?nam鈥?/a>



To actually frame-grab and compile the movie, I'd suggest using Monkeyjam if you're on a PC. It's free.



http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.co鈥?/a>



AnimatorDV: Simple+ became freeware.



http://www.animatordv.com/download7







If you're on a Mac, you could try Framethief or FramebyFrame.



http://www.framethief.com/



http://web.mac.com/philipp.brendel/Softw鈥?/a>Ideas on how to start off making stop motion animations?Do some online searches on 'claymation', that will give you a start.

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