From the course: Learning Stop Motion Animation

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Directing the animation

Directing the animation

Now that the software's hooked up and the camera's ready to go, we're going to start to animate. But, I'd like to mark out the scene. I've got three characters here and I want to know where the edges of the frame are so I could better position things. So, pretty straightforward stuff. I've got some color tape here and I'm just going to mark the edges so it's just outside of the shot. And I'll just make some little L brackets for the corners. And what I'm looking for is, on the screen here, when it starts to become part of the shot. So, as I cross that. That's just in the frame. Just cut that off. Looks good. Alright, we've got all four corners in place and notice, it's not a perfect square. Keep in mind, we're shooting at a diagonal, so as it gets further away from the camera, this top corner is actually not making a perfect square and that's good to know. If you rely on just your eyes, you can often make mistakes. But, now I know where my hands need to be clear of, so as I'm…

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