Did you ever watch a youtube video and at the end of the video there is a recommendation for a couple of videos you could go on to watch?

That is called an End screen or an end card.

I have a youtube channel and it needs an end screen. So I created a nice one with stop motion animation. This tutorial shows you how I did it and how you can do it too.

My youtube channel is here but I have on this page the full video you can watch without leaving this website.

Watch the video:

Here is the meat and potatoes of the project:

In the end card our little figure walks through a museum and stops at two pictures on the wall.

Notice how those pictures are green screened. We pop in two videos that show new videos that you can watch.

This little animation is 14 seconds long and it shows you some of the wonderful creative things you can do with stop motion animation. Let me lay it out for you.

It all starts with an idea. From there you do some writing - write out the story idea, flesh it out. Try to get a clear idea of what you are looking for in terms of the story and the setting. That's the top of the page here. Pretty simple in this case.

Then, on the bottom half of the page we turn those words into visual images. That is storyboarding. What will the animation actually look like. What are the different scenes? Where will the moving parts be? Where is our main figure?

So now we have a story and a visual guide as to how it will look. So we need to go ahead and build our little set.

A little bit of cardboard, some paper and printing up a painting image and a painting frame image we make our works of art.

Here are the five pictures I made for the animation. From Left to right on the top row are a Rembrandt, a DaVinci and a Van Gogh. The bottom two are our green screen paintings. We will be popping videos into those paintings.

Let's put it together. Here are the two sets, built. The wall and the floor are simply cardboard and wood that I applied contact paper to.

Now let's do the photography work!

Here you can see our little figure is in a corridor in the museum and he will walk across the screen. To keep his motions nice and smooth I have done a couple of things. I mounted him to a slab of foam that can be smoothly slid across the floor. And you can see I have a piece of wood and a ruler on the floor. The piece of wood is a guide to slide against. And the ruler will help me keep it nice and smooth in motion. I move the little figure 1/4 inch for every picture.

Now it's a matter of doing it. Take a picture, move the figure one quarter inch, take another picture.

And now you have a series of pictures.

All you have to do is stitch them together, in order, in some kind of video editing software.

I use a free program called "DaVinci Resolve".

And you can have your video in a minute. Four easy steps:

1. Import your pictures into the program.

2. Move them to the timeline.

3. Hit the play button! Check it out, watch the video. And if it looks good you just have to create the video

4. By hitting the export button. It stitches together all those pictures and makes a video. Yay!

Just one more thing. You are probably wondering about the green screen work. Let's continue and see how that is done. Continue