OKIOCAM Stop-Motion vs Stopmotion Explosion Animator

OKIOCAM Stop-Motion turns snapshots captured with an OKIOCAM into stop-motion videos. OKIOLABS presents it as a classroom creativity tool for teachers and students, and the software is intended for use with an OKIOCAM. It is available free on Windows, Mac OS, and as a Chrome extension. The desktop app provides mirror, onion skinning, rotate, reset, zoom, and project import and export. Onion skinning displays the previous snapshot’s object positions to help adjust the next frame. Projects can use a chosen frame rate, with 10 fps as the default. Unfinished work can be saved as a ZIP file and imported later. Exported videos and images cannot be reopened as editable projects. Users can add royalty-free music or local MP3, WAV, OGG, or FLAC audio. The Chrome extension can connect to a Google Account to save videos and snapshots in Google Drive, and the downloads page lists Google Classroom integration. OKIOLABS says its apps do not require personal information to be submitted directly to the company; Google handles sign-in details and uploaded content. The free plan costs nothing and has no free trial.

Stopmotion Explosion Animator is stop motion software for building a movie from individual frames. Its iOS app captures and previews frames as you animate, with onion-skinning to compare a new frame against earlier captures. Users can save and reload animations, adjust frame rate, use an image grid for composition and manually adjust and lock camera focus. The app also plays animations and exports video for YouTube uploads or editing in other apps. The maker says the iOS app supports iOS 12 and later and offers frame capture, onion-skinning, playback and export on iPhone and iPad. The App Store lists Video Export Unlock as a $1.99 in-app purchase. Windows software adds HD webcam support, frame import, a basic timeline, live-video and last-frame switching, and a resizable video window. It can save frames as BMP, PNG or JPG and export AVI or MP4 with codec and bitrate settings. The maker says higher camera resolutions can be selected for its animation kit and stop motion cameras. The product is listed for iOS, macOS and Windows.