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¿Stop Motion? "It's possible."

As already mentioned in the introduction to this book, Stop Motion animation is a technique based on photographs. We say that the videos from these types of animation are usually pretty fun. Okay, now the big question: I can do with Tupi Stop Motion?
The short answer is yes, however, the component dedicated to this subject still needs much work. For now, the interface allows animation exercises simple, but future goals are more ambitious.
For now, let's see how to create a short video using this technique:

1. Get a digital camera. Since this kind of animations are based on photographs, the camera is vital.
2. Build script for your story, following the tips mentioned in the " First! "
3. Get the resources you need for your story: objects, people, etc..
4. Set your camera on a fixed point (eg a table or a tripod) pointing to the place where you do your scene and make sure that the camera can not move sideways. Locate your resources at the scene, as you who are at the beginning of the animation.
5. Begins to take a photo every move you make on objects or people on the scene, according to defined in your script. Remember that every movement must be small, since it depends in the end, your animation looks very smooth.
6. Once you've captured every moment of history that you require for your scenes, connect your camera to your computer and download all the photos in a folder.
7. Open Tupi and create a new project .
8. Now select the Insert menu located at the top and choose the arrangement of Images. A dialog box opens, asking you to select the directory where you saved the pictures to your animation.

   Fig #65. Option to insert a Picture Arrangement

9. Pressing the OK button, the program will load each of your images in a separate frame and in alphabetical order in which files are located within the directory.

   Fig #66. Directory selection dialog that contains the images

10. If your images are very large, the program will be forced to resize them, as if they are many and are all larger than 1 MB, it is likely that your machine runs out of memory and the program to crash.

    Fig #67. Informational message when inserting images

11. When the process of importing images, you can take a look at your project in the Animation tab (the second in the workspace from left to right).
12. From this point, you have two options: you can export your project as a video file, or you can do some editing on the images you want using the tools of enlightenment.
13. If you like what you saw and want to convert video, return to the Animation tab and click the Export button located on the bottom panel.
14. Follow the usual steps of export as described in the previous section: "Let's create a video file " and you're done! Your Stop Motion project is ready!