Stop Frame Animation
In development. Starting to think about some skills for simple computer animation. Proper stop frame with web cams will need to wait for a year I think.
Roller skater
Basic instructions – getting started
I found this took more than a lesson, so there's a recap set of slides for lesson 2:
Then a challenge as this took for ever:
Images for basic animation:
Backgrounds:
Ballerina
Cut up version.
Head and torso.
The Roller skater, ballerina, dog and beach ball images came from Sweet Clip Art, a super-helpful free clip-art site that I've used for years. It is used under the terms specified there – i.e. non-commerical, educational use. The images have been reduced in size and in the case of the ballerina, cut up.
The park background and path background have been downloaded from Vecteezy where they have been uploaded by graphicsrf (Matt Cole) under a free licence, although I have found the same graphics on other sites.