Build Your Animation

Animate with Stop Motion

Build Your Animation

You’ll use your photos from the previous tutorial to get set up and make your animation.

Estimated time to complete this tutorial:

15 mins

Get set up in Keynote.

You’ll create a Keynote document and adjust your slides to match the shape and size of your photos.

Step 1

Open Keynote. Touch and hold the Keynote icon until the menu pops up.

Step 2

Tap New Presentation.

Step 3

Tap the Basic White theme.

Step 4

Tap Format .

Step 5

Tap Layout.

Step 6

Scroll down and tap Blank.

Step 7

To match your slide size to the orientation of your photos, tap the Document Menu.

Step 8

Tap Presentation Options.

Step 9

Tap Presentation Setup.

Step 10

Tap Slide Size to open the menu.

Step 11

Tap the 4:3 aspect ratio in landscape orientation.

Step 12

Tap Done.

Create slides for your sequence.

You’ll need a blank slide for each of your eight photos.

Step 1

To create a new blank slide, first tap the slide thumbnail slide to open the menu.

Step 2

Tap Duplicate.

Step 3

Keep adding blank slides until you have eight.

Step 4

Select the first thumbnail.

Step 5

Tap Insert Media to add a photo.

Step 6

Tap Photo or Video.

Step 7

Select the first image to add it to the first slide.

Step 8

Repeat this with the rest of the photos, adding each one to the next slide.

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Export Your GIF