I have been watching a few "stop motion" Sims 4 builds on YouTube and was really impressed with what I saw. The stop motion style of building is a lot easier to watch than a speed build and extremely artistic. I didn't realise however the amount of work that is put into them.
I started watching some tutorials, again on YouTube and after "umming" and "erring" for a few weeks, decided to give it a go myself.
With speed builds, you have to video the build as you build it. However, with stop motion builds, you create the building first then you take it apart piece by piece and as you do so, you take a photo. As you move from one part of the build to another, you record a video. Then you piece everything together in your chosen video editor, pictures first (putting in the last picture you took first and ending up with the first last) and then add the videos to where they are supposed to go, remembering to reverse them. Basically, you are working back to front. So the last item you take from your build will become the first photo/item in your video, building as you go.
All of this sounds very confusing but once you get started and get your head around it all, it's quite easy but very time consuming.
It took me two weeks to build this little cottage, take the photos and videos and piece it all together to make a stop motion video. You may or may not be pleased to know that I didn't use any custom content in this build, so that it is more "user friendly", so to speak.
I am very pleased with how the cottage turned out and I think my first go at making this type of video came out pretty good - for a beginner! I did make a few mistakes on the way but I think I've learned from those.
I really enjoyed building this cottage, even though it took me a long time but I am pleased with the end result. I will be doing more but of course, this may take a little while.
Here's a small snippet of my stop motion video:
Click here to watch the full video on my YouTube channel!
- Minicart
