Woah! You're awesome; thanks so much for doing all this. And yeah, this is exactly what I want. I'm really excited to begin shooting images, since today I managed to disassemble both my printers (harder than it seems, due to their use of obscure tamper-resistant screws).

It's pretty late here, but tomorrow I'll download and learn Motion to see what you've done.

Scrubelicious; I have FCP X, and soon, Motion. That's what I'll be using to complete this project, but others may be interested in other programs/techniques.
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Nope, I haven't got the program yet. I will have a look at some Motion tutorials; thanks for the suggestions. If that doesn't work out (or is too time consuming, since I need the whole project done in six days), a keyframed fade in FCP X seems a good compromise.

Thanks again for your help
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Hello. I'm trying to create a stopmotion in which objects added to a frame fade in a specified direction. Here's some pictures which show what I'd like to achieve (taken from ):

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7217/7360809584_42585bb09b.jpg









Is it possible to achieve this in FCPX?

The second thing that has me stumped is how to achieve a consistent (white) background throughout a stop motion. FCPX's 'Match Color' works well for video, but seems to produce extremely inconsistent results for pictures, even across a simple ten-frame animation. I could use Photoshop, but would prefer not to. Here's one of the aforementioned ten-frames:


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