Monday 31 August 2015

Stop Motion

What is Stop Motion?

Stop motion is an animation technique to make it seems an intimate object is moving on its own, when in reality individual photographs are being taken between small movements of the objects.

How does it work?

An object is photographed by a camera and then moved a tiny bit then another picture would be taken and so on till you have the movement you want your object to complete. Then once all the pictures are played through one after the other it will appear the object is moving by itself

They are advantages and disadvantages to this animation skill:


  • The advantages are that its fun to watch, and fairly easy to make
  • The disadvantages are that it requires a camera which costs money 
The credit of this animation skill can go to Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton for Humpty Dumpty Circus in 1898 which contains toys coming to life. 

Two well known examples are displayed below:

'Wallace and Gromit' is a popular Stop motion animation and is classed as a clay animation AKA Claymation.
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Another example is 'Chicken Run' another Claymation.

Here is a video showing Stop motion animation is action:


Here is a video showing how to make a stop motion animation:




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