A Vlab card would work great for capturing single frames, but a Personal Animation Recorder would be the best as you can playback the results without having to render an animation file. The image files can then be altered in another graphics program or titles overlayed/rendered to the frames.
I used my sons HotWheel cars to make an opening scene for a video segment on local traffic.
A used PAR card can be had for around a hundred dollars US and then up to an 8 gig ide hd can be installed. Well, finding compatible hds is another story, but not difficult to obtain.
Would need a zorro slot for either device.
