by Michael M. Parks on Michael Parks
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If your stop motion characters need to up and shoot each other, this is the tutorial for you! This animation how-to presents some simple techniques and principles for creating believable, high-energy gunshot effects in-camera. No compositing is needed to give your hand guns, machine guns, or laser guns some flash and pop.
Music from Hooksounds: “Chronicle of Heroes”, “Heroic Epic”, and “Voyage of Dreams”.
Please go to https://www.hooksounds.com/ref/mparks/ to find music for your video production.
Please see my other tutorials on camera moves, whiteboard animation, animating to music, dancing, make a puppet, cut-outs, lip sync, and other stop motion subjects: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL44F7344428AB62FC
Software: Dragonframe for stop motion. After Effects for compositing. Premiere for editing.
Camera: I'm using a DSLR. But a mobile device with a camera running a stop motion app is all you need. The principles discussed in this video apply to animation recorded with a mobile device.
Clay (Van Aken, Sculpy III) and armature wire: Arts/craft stores like Hobby Lobby or amazon.com.