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The interface makes it feel more like an iMovie product rather than a professional level tool like Final Cut or After Effects and it tucks away things I’d like to have direct access to, such as the number of frames I capture when clicking the record button. The range of the tools on offer means it’s trying to fit a number of different niches all within the same package and, while it does a decent job of meeting those demands, it simplifies things to the point where you lose a degree of control. However, when trying to export the resulting time-lapse as a GIF, it seemed to fail at the final moment of export, refusing to create a final file (this has also been fixed in the beta for the upcoming release). That said, once I had things in place, I was able to paint away in Photoshop without interference or issue. I did find getting the screen capture area set-up correctly to be rather tricky – without a second monitor to drag iStopMotion on to, working back and forth between it and the drawing package of choice would have been very awkward. IStopMotion also has built-in screen capture and comes with time-lapse tools in the software. You would aim to composite in a package like After Effects, to give you greater control, than work within the one piece of software.
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Again, for someone looking to make videos in their spare time, these options are great – but for full production, these are superfluous additions that aren’t required. There’s also some very basic chromakey implementation, giving the option of creating characters in front of green screens and compositing them into other scenes without leaving the software. The built-in options provided feel very gimmicky – capture images of yourself in a cartoon fish tank or surrounded by red velvet curtains, for example – but the functionality is there to allow you to combine still 2D images with captured images to create separate backgrounds for your scenes digitally rather than by building sets.
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You can bring in sound files to animate to and the software also offers you a number of compositing options, allowing you to overlay images on top-of or behind your captured frames. Some of these options can take a little bit of digging, but once I’d got a grip of the various hot keys, I was able to get into the flow of animating and iStopMotion mainly let me get on with it, without too much interference. The onion-skinning in the live preview is very useful (onion skinning shows a blend of the previous image and the live preview, allowing you to judge how far you’ve moved your puppet before capturing the next frame). Capturing frames is very straightforward once you get the feel for it. Once you have your camera working, you are shown a live preview of the image as the camera sees it on the main display and can then capture this frame using the UI or by using the hot keys. In both cases, the software failed to recognise that I had a device with the app running (this has been fixed in the beta of the next iStopMotion release). A note about the wireless option: I could not get this to work initially, either on my home wifi network or using a computer-to-computer network.
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In terms of workflow, iStopMotion comes with a number of different options for creating your images – you can use the in-built camera on your Mac, connect wirelessly to an iPhone using a custom app you download separately or use a wired solution from a DSLR or other camera. There are two options for HD, 720HD and 1080HD, and you can set your frame rate and aspect ratio separately, but the focus on low-res presets is an indication of the intended audience for the product. Once you’ve completed installation, you’re offered a number of presets for setting up your first clip, and it’s here that iStopMotion first reveals its hobbyist level – the vast majority of these presets are low-res, intended for final output and viewing on iPhones and iPads. We had a look at the latest release of iStopMotion from Boinx Software to see how well it performed. Championed in the UK by the likes of Aardman Animation, and seeing a resurgence with LAIKA’s recent work on BoxTrolls and ParaNorman, there’s a wide range of stop-motion software available.
The technique of stop-motion animation is almost as old as the craft of animation itself. We review the iStopMotion animation app, a software package that brings some pro animation features to iPads and iPhones. IStopMotion animation app for iOS and OSX
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