Stop Motion Animation - Burning Issues

                                     

Stop Motion Animation

I was interested in having a go at stop motion animation. Now I don't know why I didn't try it before. I love the versatility of stop motion. I created this stop motion by drawing the map of Africa on an A4 sheet and using a scanner I carefully drew flames over the original image, scanning as I added more flames. Unfortunately, when I had finished I decided that it would look "cool" to have the green forest in Central Africa disappearing as the flames engulfed the trees, this has taken me hours as the only way I could think of doing it without printing out 38 A4 colour images was to use Windows Paint programme and carefully rub out the green and add a cream colour with an air brush, very time consuming! I edited the stop motion images through Windows Movie Maker and added music from a free African music web site. Great experience although I think I will get a stand for my camera next time it would make it faster.