Stop Motion Video on Linux

I needed to make a cutesy video to give a quick overview of the products the startup I’m working with wants to make. Here is how I accomplished this on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install luciole

luciole is an interesting project written for a french animation festival (you’ll want to run those links through google translate, or be fluent in French. whatevs). If you’ve got a webcam that works with V4L2, and most should, you’re ready to go. Luckily I was using a hueHD with a flexible neck, so it was easy to point the camera at my animation surface.

After I had the basic story board of what I wanted to present figured out, and that was the hardest part, it was a matter of arts and craft. My media used were doodles from Eva and multicolored pipe cleaners.

I laid out the basic shots, then recorded a narration with audacity. then I went back to luciole and added frames until the animation lasted as long as the narration. Exported the luciole track as an mpeg2 and stuck them together with PiTiVi, and re-exported the final video.

Tags: animation, linux, stopmotion, video

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