blog/data/2012-03-03-stopmotion.txt

   1 Title: Stopmotion for making stop motion animations on Linux - reloaded
   2 Tags: english, debian edu, video
   3 Date: 2012-03-03 12:50
   4
   5 <p>Many years ago, the <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux
   6 / Debian Edu project</a> initiated a student project to create a tool
   7 for making stop motion movies.  The proposal came from a teacher
   8 needing such tool on Skolelinux.  The project, called "stopmotion",
   9 was manned by two extraordinary students and won a school award and a
  10 national aware with this great project.  The project was initiated and
  11 mentored by Herman Robak, and manned by the students Bjørn Erik Nilsen
  12 and Fredrik Berg Kjølstad.  They got in touch with people at Aardman
  13 Animation studio and received feedback on how professionals would like
  14 such stopmotion tool to work, and the end result was and is used by
  15 animators around the globe.  But as is usual after studying, both got
  16 jobs and went elsewhere, and did not have time to properly tend to the
  17 project, and it has been lingering for a few years now.  Until last
  18 year...</p>
  19
  20 <p>Last year some of the users got together with Herman, and moved the
  21 project to Sourceforge and in effect restarted the project under a new
  22 name,
  23 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxstopmotion/">linuxstopmotion</a>.
  24 The name change was done to make it possible to find the project using
  25 Internet search engines (try to search for 'stopmotion' to see what I
  26 mean). I've been following
  27 <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxstopmotion-community">the
  28 mailing list</a> and the improvement already in place and planned for
  29 the future is encouraging.  If you want to make stop motion movies.
  30 Check it out. :)</p>