Webmaker: Making Stopmotion Movies

A project resource that I was working on with the National Writing Project and the Mozilla Foundation has been released, and it is a tutorial and hackable activity around creating stopmotion movies. This is part of a larger partnership to create resources for folks as part of the Summer of Making and Learning.I wanted to try to find ways to teach people how to use stopmotion tools for creative expression. There are a few pages to the resources, each of which can be “remixed” thanks to the Mozilla Thimble website tool. And two activities use Popcorn Maker as a way to experiment with video design.

Check it out and give it a try. Make a movie! This connects nicely with both the Teach the Web MOOC and the Making Learning Connected MOOC.

Visit the Stopmotion Movie Webmaker Resource Page

And the resources within the main project:

• Getting Started: Playing Around with Stopmotion
• Is This Thing On? Using a Webcam for Stopmotion
• Claymation Creation: Making a Movie
• Hack and Remix a Movie: Attack at the Zombie Factory
• Hack and Remix a Movie: A Boy and his Atom (from IBM)

I made this quick sample with the free Jellycam tool:

 

Peace (in the frames),
Kevin