Want to create stop-motion films? We made an app for that!
There’s just no stopping the NFB’s web developers. Hot on the heels of the NFB Films iPhone, iPad, Android and PlayBook mobile apps, our devoted developers has come up with PixStop, a fresh new app that enables you to make stop-motion films on your iPad 2. Designed to capture as many as 10,000 images, Pixstop allows you to create mini masterpieces up to 13 minutes long. Excitement!
Pixstop was originally designed for our education clientèle (NFB/education). What this means is that the app is user-friendly enough to be used in classrooms, by school-aged children.
This is no limitation on the app’s potential, however, as the 2 clips (below) amply demonstrate. The first was made by NFB Hothouse alummus/full-fledged animator Sylvie Trouvé (director of the well-loved Orange); the second is a “test” our colleague, the multi-talented Mivil Deschênes, made while fooling around with the app at his house. (The song Mivil used is “Distant Faces” by the Montreal group Solids.)
Pixstop is available on iTunes. The app is free in Canada; $2,99 elsewhere.
Have fun!
15 Responses
January 11th, 2012
UPDATE: Record Breaking Stop-Motion Animation | Engage Learning Systems Inc. said:
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January 12th, 2012
Ryan said:
Any chance this might be available for blackberry playbook?
January 12th, 2012
Brill said:
Awesome. I’m am going to love getting the kids involved, it’ll be a learning experience for all of us.
January 15th, 2012
Bill Belsey said:
Can you please also produce a version of this app for the iPhone 4/4s ?
January 15th, 2012
Pierre Durand said:
Bonjour
L’application est le fun à utiliser. Difficile d’immobiliser le IPad. Ça prendrait un genre de trépied ? Avez-vous une idée ? Comment peut-on se « patenter » quelque chose ?
Merci
Hi
It is really fun to use PixStop but I was wondering how to have my iPad not moving at all ? Any idea of a home-made kind of tripod for iPad ?
Thanks
January 23rd, 2012
Carolyne Weldon said:
Hi Pierre,
We addressed your question in this blog post!
Thanks for getting in touch, and have fun shooting!
Kindest,
Carolyne
January 20th, 2012
Szin said:
go to youtube and search for ipad + velcro for some ideas that should lead you to a tripod like device
January 22nd, 2012
yolanda said:
Thank you for PixStop! I’ve always wanted to play with the medium of stop animation but never had the tools for the video making. I made one silly little thing with some stuff on the table, then embarked on a more ambitious project. I’m going to animate a short story I wrote some time ago. I’ve painted my story boards and a bit of scenery.
That’s when I realized, there is no import feature. I can export my paintings in a number of standard image formats, but pixstop hasn’t got the option to load an album of numbered images.
Please please, please add this function alongside the camera? Then I could create an album for my video inserting all my carefully painted images with their numbers appropriate and the software would just load them all in order instead of receiving from the camera.
January 23rd, 2012
Carolyne Weldon said:
Yolanda -
Great idea, we’ll consider it for the next releases. We have no timetable for the next release yet.
Best,
Carolyne
January 23rd, 2012
How to make a cardboard tripod for your iPad | NFB.ca blog said:
[...] new and terrific stop-motion application, a reader called Pierre Durand left us a comment on the blog. In his message, Pierre said (in both of Canada’s official languages, to boot) that he liked [...]
January 23rd, 2012
David S. said:
Blackberry Playbook version?
January 26th, 2012
traitement photo | Pearltrees said:
[...] Want to create stop-motion films? We made an app for that! | NFB.ca blog This is no limitation on the app’s potential, however, as the 2 clips (below) amply demonstrate. [...]
January 31st, 2012
Comment fabriquer un trépied pour votre iPad | Le blogue ONF.ca said:
[...] des films d’animation image par image, un utilisateur nommé Pierre Durand nous a laissé un message sur le blogue anglais pour nous dire qu’il avait de la difficulté à immobiliser son iPad [...]
March 1st, 2012
Karen E Smith said:
I am really enjoying the NFB app for iPad. Very useful for teaching.
May 9th, 2012
dave said:
Is a playbook version in the works? Pls say yes!