Version 4.2.0

Adds a feature to rotate the camera view 180 degrees so that the camera can be placed upside-down and give right-side-up images. Also updated to Qt 5.12 and C++17.

Version 4.1.1

This is a minor release to fix a resizing issue in the release compilation of the software.

Version 4.1

This version addresses some bugs discovered in the 4.0 release, and adds a small additional user interface element to ease working with the sound effects.

Version 4.0

This is a ground-up rewrite of the code in C++ using the Qt user interface framework. Encoding final movies and adding sound effects are the major new features. In addition, camera images are now stored as JPEG files (rather than TIFF) so take up much less space.

This release includes all of the files necessary to run a Stop Motion Animation program for kids. There is no installation, it's designed to run anywhere you can plug in a thumb drive: just download it onto drives, unzip it, and run the .exe file.

I have not compiled a Mac or Linux version -- please contact me if you're interested in those.

Version 3.0

This release updates to Processing 3 and features improved UI responsiveness, more robust camera searching, and a better indication to the user of what it is doing when it is busy. It is still a standalone application, with no installation required, and can be run from anyplace you have permission to create files. At the library we run it off thumb drives, for example. We recommend at least 8GB of available space because TIFF files are about 1MB each and some students take a lot of photos!

Version 2.0

This release of the software shrinks the user interface so it works better on small laptops. It also adds some basic help documentation.

Version 1.0

First public release!

This software is designed for very simple stop-motion animation creation, with as few options as possible. It assumes only a single webcam is available on the computer, and encodes all frames as 640x480 TIFF files in a directory named with the date and time the project started. Frame assembly into an actual movie file is not supported within this software (there are free tools available to do that, however).