Product Description

With Claymation Studio you can easily create stop motion video. Capture images using a digital camera, webcam or DV camcorder, create characters, apply small changes, and add background images and music to create your own claymation movies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #263 in Software
• Brand: Honest Technology
• Model: HCS1M
• Released on: 2007-07-01
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .30 pounds

Features

• Easy-to-use software for creating stop-motion video
• Capture images using a digital camera, webcam, or DVD camcorder
• Create characters; add background images and music
• View previous and next frame on same screen in transparent overlay mode
• Audio recording; simple frame editing; save video in WMV or AVI format

Amazon.com
With the honestech Claymation Studio, you can easily create stop motion video. Capture images using a digital camera, webcam or DV camcorder, create characters, apply small changes, and add background images and music to create your own claymation movies.

Easily create your own claymation movies.	Supports WMV & AVI formats Save your video in WMV or AVI format. Audio Recording Import audio or record your own audio. Simple Frame Editing Use hot-keys to copy, paste, delete, cut, and merge images.
Onionskin View previous frame in transparent overlay to help you capture or create the next frame/image.
Rotoscope Use a reference image to help create a new image.
Chroma key Using a blue/green screen, you can easily change the background.

Amazon.com
Easily create stop-motion video with Claymation Studio. Capture images using a digital camera, webcam, or DVD camcorder; create characters; apply small changes; and add background images and music to create your own claymation movies.

Features:

• Onionskin: view the previous frame and the next frame in creation process on the same screen in transparent overlay mode to help you perfect the image for the next frame.
• Rotoscope: view a still photo on top of the new image in creation process and use it as reference to help you produce images that are difficult to create.
• Chroma key: Put your clay object on a blue/green screen and import background images from another source. You can easily change the background to create the best background for you project.
• Supports WMV and AVI format: allows you to save your video in WMV or AVI format.
• Audio recording: import or record audio and add to specific frames.
• Simple frame editing: Display frames in sequence, and change the order of frames using drag-and-drop. Use hot-keys to copy, paste, delete, cut, and merge images.

Customer Reviews

Fun & educational program for students
I bought this program for my nephew who is a 5th grader. he was asking me to buy him a game console, but I thought this program would be fun and educational at the same time. However, he was not really into it initially, and I thought he might be too young to use this program. But I decided to show him what this program can do. I followed the instructions in the Quick Start Guide, and I set up a webcam and shot a few frames with his toys. I used his favorite wrestling toys and made a very short movie. After seeing the silly wrestling movie that I made, he wanted to try it himself. I visited him again about two weeks later, and I found out that he made about a dozen stop motion videos of his own. He's been bragging about his movies to his friends everyday, and now he and his friends are making their own movies together.

Very user-friendly
I am new to the creation of animation. I have always been interested in claymation but was unsure how it came together. This product is user-friendly and intuitive. As I created simple animations I began to understand the product more. I would definitely recommend this product to anyone interested in claymation.

Small price for a lot of features.
This product isn't beefy in the features department by any means, but it does have just the right amount of features for the price. I still wonder how well it will animate a rather long video, but I have yet the patients to create one.

Overall a great product for the price. I would strongly recommend owning a webcam for capture though, or if you have a little more budget a video camera hooked into your Firewire port would be best (Just more pricey and over-the-top for those younger animators out there).

I'd recommend this to parents who have kids that show creativity and maybe play to many video games. Get them involved in projects like this that encourage productivity with real rewards!