It's incredibly nice to see something less deep and philosophical on TED. It's a nice change of pace and gives little tidbits on how some stuff we take for granted works.

Hi! More information about software on our website (Click "View this lesson on ed.ted.com" in the video and go to the Dig Deeper section). Happy animating!

There were some really original ideas in there, and I really enjoyed how the process was revealed.

My school has a TV Tech class, and we had an entire unit on stop motion. I made one with pipe cleaner people doing a chase scene, which is a pain in the butt because the pipe cleaners kept bending so they looked different between frames. Then I starred in one of my friends where I was a guy making sandwich using only the power of his mind. It was fun, but took FOREVER to get all the frames, which is really boring when you can't move without messing up the whole scene.

That was so cool and interesting..I would love to learn more.

Awesome!!! More on animation, please. I'm going to try this.

The key to making brilliant special effects would be creativity and imagination.

*"You can capture individual frames from a video to use with Stop motion software. and you can convert a video file into a folder of still images, and even choose how many frames a second."*

Disagree, Jacob. The point is that anyone can do it, do it quickly, and do it using fairly common materials. Over producing the piece would make it inaccessible. This is both practical and inspirational for many a would-be animator. Loved it!

This is your chance to shine, and redo this to show TED what quality is all about! Will you take this challenge?!

they just said "any cheap stop-motion app thar works" or something like that. and really, its the only way to avoid advertising a specific platform, like apple or android. you could also do it with a webcam or digital camera and a computer.

nice lesson :)

Hi there, superb, what was a photo per second rate in your animated video.? Regards

Fantastic!

niice, easy stuff to do when you know how to !

for the sandwich one could you just green screen it? as in film him making faces/ pretending to telepathically make a sandwich then take that a place it together with a stop motion of just the sandwich being assembled? as long as the lighting was the same it could work

The music LOL

Haha! These are fun.

Can this be done with video instead of pictures?

What is the name of the app you use

Hey TED, where is this song from?!

Cool!

iStopMotion for iPad.

why not spice it up but when someone gives u something spicy, they all go around it lol.

Should be called basic pixilation

that brunette chik is pretty cute.

What is the app called?

TedEd Ad?

It would have been more work, and we don't have the best green screen so it would have looked off. So why go through more work with more potential problems for a product that would have looked the same if not worse

im an animator a lego animator but i film it with a photocamera

0:22 to 0:26 LOL

Celeste is a name

Intro song

NiCe ideas ^_^

Applebaum :)

because green screens are too mainstream

um... honeybadger, anyone?

It's not negativity, I honestly think this video could use a lot of work. As I said. It's important to express your opinion, even if it's not all positive, and even thought I tend to keep negative comments to myself most of the time, this case is different; This is TED, who normally produce great quality, and unlike some other KZfaqrs, TED should be able to handle negative feedback and improve based on it. Anyways, it seems like my opinion is not the shared one, but I still stand by it.

you're right ... now try animating your comment .... :P

Both the girls in this video are extremely cute!

i counted. it's only 999'998 ways. LIARS!

Or you could just reply to the damn comment AND plug your fucking website.

too much of a howcast feel, don't like it

One of the girls is really hot.

The girls are pretty. :)

This video only shows things which is well known before, and any 1/2 creative person coud realise what can do with any special efect studio, therefore it is an advertisement and does not deserve to be a TED video. Thumbs down!

I thought TED was for experts in their areas to educate others, but this seems more like some random people who stumbled upon an App, made some terrible stop-motion and then added some even worse, and annoyingly repetitive, music. I'm trying not to say this to be rude, it's nice people wants to educate other, but you must do it with a sense of quality. This seemed like something had they put together in little over an hour, they could at least have made one somewhat smooth stop-motion themselves

easy to make this stop motion reality: how we do this ffect joke madafakurs