My Garage Studio
The garage studio is where CoreyMotion’s “Stop motion Animations Department” works. (Ha, ha, I love how professional that sounds. Actually it is just a table in my garage with come cool lights.)
When filming live action the best sets are in real environments, but in stop motion animation everything is at a much smaller scale so everything must be re-created to mimic the real world. To do that we need a studio.
An environment which has outside lighting, is not ideal for stop motion animating. In my one story Spanish style home every room has a skylight and big windows. The only place in the whole house that would be ideal for stop motion animating was not inside the house, but in the garage.
So one day I come back from school and my mama and Uncle Jasper had made me a little studio in the garage with some necessary equipment, such as lighting, lighting gels, colored construction paper, and much more. This was a big step up in making my stop motions better.
Later on, after the garage studio was established, my two guardian angels set up a desk in my bedroom with a new computer and large monitor for editing. With the new computer came Final Cut Pro, which gave me a lot more potential in editing.
Now I had pretty much everything I needed for professional level stop motion. I had a camera, a studio, a computer, and every software I needed.
I currently use a bunch of software for my film making and animation. The main ones are Dragonframe for stop motion, Final Cut Pro for editing, Final Draft for scripts, and occasionally, if I do a 2-D digital drawing animation, I use FlipaClip. Dragonframe and Final Cut Pro are great software, but FlipaClip I do not recommend. The only reason why I use it is because it’s free. I do not do digital 2-D animation enough to buy Procreate Dreams yet.
Overall for a stop motion studio this is exactly what I need, and I am thrilled and grateful to have it.