Geoffrey Wiseman

iStopMotion Knockout

I had been considering trying to do some stop-motion work with my son as a hobby, and I'd been eyeing iStopMotion, so when it came on sale in the latest MacHeist, I knew immediately that I wanted it, so I ordered the MacHeist.

Knowing that iStopMotion had an option for an iPhone remote camera, and that I had a joby gorillapod that would do nicely, I also ordered a Glif from Studio Neat.

Today the Glif arrived and my wife fell asleep early, so I took advantage of the coincidence to do a trial run:

Not bad. Not bad at all.

There are lots of things that went wrong: Some parts of the sequence move too fast, I didn't have anything like thread nearby to support the 'actors' when I couldn't put my hand in the frame, you can see my hand here and there, there's no audio.

Still, for a first try with no preparation, I'm pretty pleased with how well it went, and I'm eager to try again with a tethered SLR, adding audio, and so forth.

An hour ago, I was hoping I could figure this out so that I could try and interest my son. Now, it doesn't matter so much because I'd be happy to do some more even if my son doesn't show any interest. ;)

iStopMotion is pretty great. If you did buy the MacHeist nanobundle, I'd suggest you give it a try.