Welcome to the Slow In  and Slow Out assignment lesson where we are going  to use stop motion animation  for the first time in this course. So if you wanna follow along with the stop motion, you can. If you don't and you wanna use one  of the other mediums we've already discussed,  then you're free to do that as well. So if you wanna follow along with a stop motion,  we are going to need a camera. And in this case I'm using my iPhone and we need an app. And there's many stop motion apps out there,  but I'm using one called Stop Motion Studio.

It's free, it's on iPhone and Android. So I encourage you to get that app. And we also need a tripod  because when you're starting out doing stop motion,  you wanna have the camera stationary. You don't wanna be moving the camera around a lot  or even trying to do handheld. Do not do that right,  because your camera will be moving more than the thing  you're trying to animate and it'll be hard to watch. So you want to be able to have your camera stationary  and you need a tripod for that  and you can make a tripod out of a lot of different things.

So I just to demonstrate that, found some chip clips here  and I can actually just clip the corners  and that does a pretty good job of  setting up a nice little tripod for me. So I'm going to try to record the screen here. It keeps not wanting to record the screen. Let's open up the app now. And so now we're in stop motion studio. I'm gonna click create new movie here.

And so what we're gonna do is we are going to animate  this post-it note here. This is going to be the ground. And so we need one other one that's going to be the one  that's gonna be animated. And let's just move it straight above this one,  a certain distance that makes sense for our camera here,  move the camera into place. And once it's in place, I don't want to touch it. And I'm going to also use the time, uh,  the timer feature here.

So I'm gonna click this little, uh, camera button here to  go into the camera and click the timer button here  and turn on the timer. So it'll automatically take a picture for me so I don't have  to click and touch the camera,  which can move the camera itself. So I'm gonna do 10 seconds and if my hand gets in the way  and I miss the ten second mark, um,  I can just delete that frame later. So the other thing to notice is on the left  side you have the onion skin. So middle, if you leave it in the middle,  it'll show the frame before it. So because we haven't started, it's  not showing the frame before it.

And so let's get started. We need to do slow out, meaning we want  to move the first frame as little as we can basically,  because that's gonna set up the rest of the animation  because each time we move the post-it note it needs  to go further and further until it hits the ground. So when it comes back up on the bounce, it's going  to have that same energy. So it's going to hit  and come back up with the same kind of spacing, um,  until we get to the kind of apex. And it's going to slow down again up here  and speed up slow down, speed up, slow down. And that's ease in and ease out or slow in and slow out.

So let's get started. I'm gonna hit the first picture. I'm gonna try to get outta the way of the camera of the app  and let it take a first picture and get ready to rumble. So it is, there we go. So I'm gonna move it a little, little bit  'cause this is the slow out part, whoa, gosh. And then trying to get outta the way  as quick as I can as well.

So each time you move it, it needs to be more  distance than the last one. That will give that gradual motion  of the easing out. And the more you move it, the more you can kind  of take advantage of the onion skin feature here to see  how much you move the last one  and kind of take a mental note of,  okay, I moved it this much. So that means I need to, at the bare minimum go  that far again. But really I need to go much further, um,  than than the last picture. So probably gonna go pretty far on this one  and then have the next one be the one  that hits the, the ground.

So I'm laying it up with the ground  and then we're gonna bounce back up. So again, do not do a slow out here. It's has a ton of energy  'cause it, it picked up speed going down so it, it still has  that speed as it goes up until gravity takes effect. So I'm gonna move it a little less this time  than the previous move. And then maybe a half post-it note  Of a distance and then maybe  half again, doing halves is a good way to kind of  gradually do less  and less when you just keep having the distance. It's a nice little trick when you're,  when you're having to do this visually,  it can get kind of difficult.

Just wanna go a little bit. So we'll just do one bounce in this exercise,  but I encourage you to do more bounces. I'm just gonna stop that and, um, uh, try  and do maybe three bounces on your exercise. So I'm gonna go back and make sure  I'm not in the way of any of those. And then I'm gonna hit play here. So it has a nice ease out of the, the first motion  and the bounce and ease in to the top of the,  the, the bounce as well.

So that's the principle at play using a new  medium of animation, stop motion animation. So hopefully you found that useful  and I look forward to seeing you in the next lesson.