SANDY
My first stop-motion animation was a ball bouncing. I did the animation on 'Sketchbook' which is a free drawing app. To create the ball I used the circle tool. I consider this animation to be freestyled because I didn't research or watch videos on it. I think that I did a good job because the ball changes shape. To make the ball appear to be moving, I lowered the capacity of the last frame and changed its position to move it in the direction I wanted, towards another layer/page, also using guidelines and drawing the path of the ball before it traveled.
The second animation that I did was a book skimming through some pages and shifting text. There I also used 'Sketchbook' but instead I free-handed the shapes, but unlike the ball bouncing I didn't have guidelines. Using guidelines depends on the content of the animation you're working on.
I added 'bent squares' as the pages to look like they were moving, because sometimes motion is seen with lines in cartoons and such. When I got to the middle part of the book I used blocks, and I tried to make it look like the pages were ending by separating them.
To make actual frame changes, I lowered the capacity of the last frame drawn and went over it with a slight change in shape, this is how I created the pages flipping.
The shifting text at the beginning of my second mini-project is by far the easiest form of stop motion. You write any text and go over the same frame a couple of times. The speed changes the effect you're giving the text, but overall, this process takes two minutes.
For future animations, I was thinking of using outlines like the ones in the previous ones because although the style is messy and can be considered an animating style, a structure would make it more composed.
When I started the project I planned to do an animation of an R6 Roblox body, doing different movements. So I sketched that a bunch of times, like the ones below. However, I did not continue but went to do more basic things first.