Stop Motion Handbook 3.1 using GarageBand and iStopMotion: Quite simply the best book in the world for learning how to make stop motion movies

Fast track the learning curve to making your own stop motion movies on the Mac. It's fun, it's crazy, it's addictive. It leads you through simple and robust processes helping both beginner and amateur animators make good decisions when creating stop motion movies. As you learn how to avoid numerous common mistakes, your first movies will have the quality of a more seasoned movie maker. It's a great guide for teachers, parents or children who want to produce their own stop motion movies.

Learn key competencies across a broad range of learning areas:

• Developing a story and writing it into a SCRIPT
• Recording the AUDIO of the script (dialogue, sound effects, and music) in GarageBand, and saving it as a soundtrack
• Making PROPS and BACKGROUNDS and creating the CHARACTERS to bring your story to life
• Recording the stop motion PICTURES in iStopMotion
• EDITING the stop motion movie. Adding a title and credits in iMovie.

"Stop motion animation has many educational benefits and uses within the classroom, from teaching skills such as teamwork, structural thinking, and planning to providing students with immediate results and instant gratification. Students of all ages quickly learn the simple ins and outs of the software, and are animating within minutes. It is so important to encourage creative thinking within the classroom, and with iStopMotion you can do just that. The Stop Motion Handbook is the perfect way to get acquainted with iStopMotion, from how to write your own storyboard, making clay models, recording the sound, and taking the pictures... Just follow the easy steps and you and your students or children will be animating in no time!" Oliver Breidenbach, CEO, Boinx Software Helps push the boundaries of creativity with each project. Sandra McCallum - Principal Stop motion gets Year 6-8 boys engaged and excited about learning in the classroom. Ben Gittos - Teacher This is such a useful book, full of good ideas and handy hints. I wish it had been around when I was doing stop motion with my class. Hilary Hague - Teacher