Frame removal and replacement for stop-action animation

A method of creating a stop-motion video, the method comprising:

• accessing, at a computing device, a series of frames of an input video;
• performing, at the computing device, image analysis of a given frame to determine whether the given frame includes a portion of a move mechanism, wherein the move mechanism is a hand, and wherein determining whether the given frame of the series of frames includes the portion of the hand comprises determining a baseline number of objects in a scene captured by the series of frames, identifying a number of objects in each frame from the series of frames, determining that frames including more objects than the baseline number of objects are frames that include the move mechanism, and determining that frames including up to the baseline number of objects are frames that do not include the move mechanism;
• identifying frames of the series that include the move mechanism;
• creating an output video based on the input video by removing from the input video the identified frames of the series that Include the move mechanism;
• and
• rendering the output video with the frames that do not include the portion of the move mechanism.

At least one non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions for creating a stop-motion video, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

• access, at a computing device, a series of frames of an input video;
• perform image analysis of a given frame to determine, at the computing device, whether the given frame of the series of frames includes a portion of a hand, wherein the move mechanism is a hand, and wherein to determine whether the given frame of the series of frames includes the portion of the hand, the instructions to perform image analysis of a given frame to determine whether the given frame of the series of frames includes the portion of a hand comprises instructions to determine a baseline number of objects in a scene captured by the series of frames, identify a number of objects in each frame from the series of frames, determine that frames including more objects than the baseline number of objects are frames that include the move mechanism, and determine that frames including up to the baseline number of objects are frames that do not include the move mechanism;
• identify frames of the series that include the portion of the hand;
• create an output video based on the input video by removing from the input video the identified frames of the series that include the portion of the hand;
• and
• render the output video with the frames that do not include the portion of the hand.