 Hi, Tony here. It's shapegram time. Let's use our shapegram skills to make stop motion animations. Stop motion is a technique in which objects are changed bit by bit between frames. A frame is a single image in a series of images. When multiple frames are played in succession, you've got an animation. Maybe you've seen a flipbook. When each page is briefly seen one after another, you see an animation. Think of each page of a flipbook as a frame. We can make digital stop motion in Google Slides. Each slide is a frame. There are no transitions or motion effects applied in stop motion. The animation is all done by making small changes to what's on each slide. We can tell stories, communicate information, and show what we know through stop motion. There are many animation techniques you can use, and I'd like to show you some of them. I've opened a blank Google Slides presentation. I'm going to make a thunderstorm animation, so I draw clouds on slide one. In the film strip on the left side of the screen, I click slide one to make sure it's selected. I click the edit menu and choose duplicate. Now I'm on slide two. I draw a lightning bolt. I want to see what this two slide animation looks like on a loop, so I click slideshow. I hover over the bottom left corner and click the three dots. I then hover over autoplay and click loop. I then click play. You can see that the slideshow continuously switches between the two slides. I press escape on my keyboard to exit the slideshow. I want the clouds with no lightning on the screen longer, and I want the lightning bolt to flash faster. So here's what I do. I click the slide in the film strip that has no lightning. I duplicate it. I click the slideshow button. I hover over the bottom left, go to autoplay, and click loop. I change the timing to one second. Now let's play. My changes make the lightning appear on the screen for one second, and then the clouds without lightning for two seconds. I press the escape key to end the slideshow. This is a key idea in stop motion. When you want a frame to last longer, simply duplicate it and don't make any changes to the duplicate.