I was representing Boinx Software at the recent Apple Teacher Institute (called "Lehrer-Kongress" in Germany) in Weimar where I shot this time lapse of the Lunch buffet being set up and destroyed using iStopMotion. There were two workshops about animation with iStopMotion held by Apple Distinguished Educator Michael Fromm and the attendees loved it.

Famous german comics artist Karl A. Bihlmeier reviews iStopMotion for german technology news site "Industrial Technology & Witchcraft" (in German):

You can't get more creative fun at $40.

Check out the time lapse that shows the artist creating the best April 1st cartoon I've seen this year and the nice stop motion animation "Tinkerbell & Robocop".

J. Curtis of the VLOG-O-RAMA posts: "I have this weird fascination with timelapse footage. I'll post a few more on here as the days go on but here's one of my buddy Mike and I at my old apartment. We were using iStopMotion for the actual stopmotion settings." Not only is his fascination weird but so is the time lapse movie. Has a number of very nice choreographical ideas...

Tom Chaffer of AtomSound Media is "Inbetween Work". A timelapse of himself and (briefly) his spouse in front of his computer on a typical day. Tom writes: "Thx for the FUN! Here's the first test run of the 1.8 iStopMotion... this thing rocks so hard!". The movie is clear proof of how much he enjoys himself.

Oliver Wehrens likes iStopMotion: "It is a nice stop motion program. It can also take timed snapshots. So I pointed out of my window." and posts a time lapse of the view from his window in MPEG4 format at his weblog. Lots of trains and cars... BTW, the Boarding Card layout of the webpage is quite original.

Jay Curtis of "You Mac Life" has done a Christmas Time lapse. He writes at his blog: "I've loved timelapse footage since, well, forever. With iStopMotion from Boinx Software, it's really easy for anyone to do it with a DV camera (or iSight)." Click here for the three day time lapse movie. See if you can spot Santa in there.

John Thomas writes: "Wow, it has been my life's dream to make stop motion movies. Until now I could never afford it. I found out about your software, and bought it immediately! Thank You so much, I can not express what an impact your software has had on my life. I don't mean to sound all cheesy, but seriously, I have wanted to do stop motion animation since the fist time I saw Gumby when I was little. I had come to the conclusion I never would, because Lunchbox systems are too expensive. But wow, you made software, and you made it affordable!" Merry Christmas, John.

John's first movies include a time lapse of his christmas tree being decorated and a stop motion short called "Bubblegum".

Bob posts a couple of time lapse movies: Clouds from outside his windows and shadows on the sidewalk. He posts in his weblog: "Something about my new time lapse movies I have up now. For those that wonder how I made them here it is. I used a shareware program called iStopMotion from Boinx. Basically you hook the camcorder to your Mac and set the program to take a frame at a certain interval. The clouds movie is one frame a second. The day shadows is one frame every 30 seconds. Incredibly simple to do. I hope to get one of Felix during the day when I'm gone, but I need to figure out how to keep the cat off of the PowerBook. Not easy."

Jeff Carlson posted a Time Lapse of the Oct 27th Lunar Eclipse done with iStopMotion: "Tonight was a total lunar eclipse, which won't happen again until 2007. Uncharacteristically, the Seattle sky was completely clear, so I was able to point my video camera out the window and tape the eclipse. I used iStopMotion to take a snapshot every 15 seconds."