Stop Motion Techniques & Ideas By Will Kalif

I have found a website called: http://www.stopmotioncentral.com where I have come across this 'tutorial' of how to create two dimentional creations and how to create three dimentional creations. I have posted this so i can easily refer back to it, and also to share what i've been looking into:

"Two Dimensional Ideas Working in two dimensions gives you a lot of creative and inexpensive options. You can simply draw pictures on paper and erase then redraw them to show the motions you want to make. An alternative to erasing is to draw series of pictures on separate sheets of paper and photograph them individually. This can give you extraordinary results but is very challenging to make sure the images stay cleanly tracked without slippage which would make it very jerky and shaky. An excellent way to draw pictures is to use a dry erase board if you want to get some great looking animations and if you have some skill in drawing. Three Dimensional Animation Start is with clay or play-doh-if you don’t have any of these materials you can easily make some out of flour, salt and water. Another very simply yet very expressive technique is to use wire. You can easily shape it into figures and objects. It holds its shape well yet is easy to manipulate into simulations of motion.  Just about any three-dimensional object can be used in interesting ways. You can draw small eyes, noses, and mouths then attach them to any object and come up with an interesting anthropomorphic little project. You can even carve potatoes or apples and get some great videos. Some final tips If you really want to make your animations special you should move the camera as you take your series of pictures. You can do this by either zooming in or out or panning from side to side. This moving of the camera is the single best way to make your animations stand out. Just about anything in your every day world can be transformed into something extraordinary with a little bit of animation magic and a little bit of creativity." By Will Kalif