From the course: Learning Stop Motion Animation

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Stabilizing your tablet or smartphone

Stabilizing your tablet or smartphone

From the course: Learning Stop Motion Animation

Stabilizing your tablet or smartphone

As you get ready to start shooting stop motion animation, you're going to notice something about your abilities. It's really hard to hold a camera absolutely still. You'll get it up there, but over time there's going to be slight vibration, and unless you're the type of person who sleeps ten hours a night,and never touches a drop of caffeine, this is absolutely unavoidable. For professionals shooting video and photography, they often use devices called tripods to stabilize their cameras. And for those of you that work as photographers or video professionals, you know that a tripod is absolutely an essential piece of gear. Well, even when shooting on a tablet or a smartphone, you could use a tripod-like device. Now, there are several things for several budgets. First up, the folks at iStopMotion, make a really simple piece that you can put together. This is just a little origami cutout. You take it, a pair of scissors, cut it out, fold it together, and with a little bit of tape, and a…

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