Animation Projects
Two eighth grade students in 1996 created this short
movie with stop-frame animation techniques. They used an action
figure named the Toxic Crusader™ to create the background
movements. They then filmed a student from a distance and cut the
student out of each frame and pasted him in with the monster. It
creates a very crude but realistic impression of the student being
munched up by the creature.
The movie is 1.0 Mb compressed, so you need a bit
of RAM to create the stop frame animations in color. I used the
program Movie
Cleaner Lite™ to compress the movie
and then used Movie
Player 2.5™ to save it as a self
contained movie. Then just to make sure I used the freeware Internet
Movie Tool on a batch of movies to get them ready to post on the web.
The grayscale movies are much more managable.