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  • SKU: ISTOPMOTIO


An animation application that can be used to help users express their creativity. The tools can be used to animate stories, videos and images one frame at a time.

iStopMotion is for creating stop motion and time lapse movies on your Mac, equally loved by thousands of parents, kids, teachers, brickfilmers, pro animators and everybody with an interest in this fascinating movie making technique.

iStopMotion is available in the following editions:

  • iStopMotion for Mac: Tell your story, frame by frame with iStopMotion like many thousands of parents, kids, teachers, brickfilmers, pro animators and everybody with an interest in this fascinating movie making technique.
  • iStopMotion for iPad: Ideal for use in the classroom and in all disciplines, honing creativity, problem-solving and communication skills in students of all ages.

Key Features:

  • Onion Skinning: See what the animation is going to look like before you capture the frame.
  • Flipbook Printing: Print your animations in a format that easily folds into a flip book to take them with you.
  • Foregrounds: Overlay your animation with a picture or video with transparency to achieve amazing effects.
  • Supported Cameras: iStopMotion can use many video cameras, video capture devices and digital photo cameras with support for OS X capture technologies.
  • Instant Playback: Watch your animation before its finished to see if it worked out the way you wanted.
  • Tilt Shift Filter: A popular effect as of late, make your scene look like a miniature.
  • Rotoscope: Use another movie as a guide for your animation to get the movements just right.
  • Sharing: iStopMotion records and stores each frame individually for maximum quality and can export to any format supported by OS X, including Full HD.
  • Time Lapse: Speed up slow processes, like a flower blooming or the sun setting.
  • Chroma Keying: Animate dinosaurs into real background pictures or movies, or put an actor into an animated scene.
  • Sound Waveform: Use a pre-recorded sound track and animate to it, for example to create a music video.
  • Editing: iStopMotion focuses on and perfects the art of capturing single frames. Export to iMovie, Final Cut Pro X or another video editing app to edit, add titles and sound effects.