The Software
Now when it comes to stop-motion, you may be thinking, “You just take a series of photos and play them back as a movie, right?” …well yes, but having a good piece of software for stop-motion is paramount! Stop-motion is all about planning, shooting, reviewing, shooting some more and repeating. Being able to see what you’re shooting and what you’ve shot simultaneously and what you need to shoot next, is the most basic feature of any piece of stop-motion software.
I used a piece of software called Dragonframe, which sadly has little to do with dragons. In 2011, I had downloaded the trial version for and old release back when it was called “Dragon Stop-Motion” and had played around with it. The new Version 3, I quickly found out, wasn’t anything like the software that I used to knoooooowwww (in a good way).
Behind the scenes on Gotye’s music video for “Somebody That I Used To Know” feat. Kimbra shot by Stark Raving Productions using Dragonframe..