stopmotion: Build Stop Motion Animations from Image Sequences

A pipeline-friendly toolkit for assembling stop motion animations from sequences of still images. Provides functions to read image directories, restructure frame sequences (duplicate, splice, arrange), apply per-frame pixel transformations (rotate, wiggle, flip, flop, blur, scale, crop, trim, border, background), and export the result as a GIF. All transformation functions accept a 'frames' argument to target any subset of frames, bridging the gap between 'magick' functions that operate on an entire image stack and fine-grained stop motion editing. Image processing is performed via 'ImageMagick Studio LLC' (2024) <https://imagemagick.org>.

Version: 0.1.0
Imports: magick, checkmate
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr, knitr, quarto
Published: 2026-03-24
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.stopmotion (may not be active yet)
Author: Alban Sagouis ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Alban Sagouis <sagouis at pm.me>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: stopmotion results

Documentation:

Reference manual: stopmotion.html , stopmotion.pdf
Vignettes: Stop motion editing with stopmotion: the laser dinosaur (source, R code)

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Package source: stopmotion_0.1.0.tar.gz
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