To understand timing, spacing, and posing - sometimes it is best to animate...the animators!
In the Black Hat Section of Animating Kids! we have "Person-imations" (pronounced per-Son-im-Ations).
Experiments like these get kids into the mindset of being an animator.
We call this the Human Beach Ball.
Kinesthetic learning activates the animator gene in the DNA of beginning stop motion filmmakers.
You can also get additional apps and have fun tweaking things!
Here is a gif from an Animation Chefs lawn surfing animation, using the Photoshop clone stamp to remove a chair.
Before Clone Stamp erasing:
After Clone Stamp Erasing:
Here is a full behind the scenes video of this lawn surfing example. (1:12min)
Have some fun using our recipes to animate your kids!
Send us your results and we'll blast them out to our followers!
Bon Animate!
The Animation Chefs