The History Of Stop Motion Continued

Stop motion has been used more as cinema has become more popular, for example it has been used in the original Star Wars trilogy, in a New Hope the chess sequence is done with stop motion, in The Empire Strikes Back, the Tauntauns and AT-AT walkers were all done by stop motion and then in Return of the Jedi the AT-ST walkers were animated by stop motion animation. The many shots including the ghosts in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DGF5UYBox0 Raiders of The Lost Ark, (ignore the stupid music)

In the 1980s there was Who Framed Roger Rabbit  and The Little Mermaid, then going into the 90's there was Henry Selick who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas and Tim Burton was producer, and it was one of the most popular and widely released stop motion films, then after those there was James and The Giant Peach and Coraline which Henry Selick directed but in 2005 there was The Corpse Bride which Tim Burton had directed himself, which was animated as a claymation stop motion, with the same sort of genre as The Nightmare Before Christmas.

The most well known stop motion characters in all the history of stop motion is most probably Wallace and Gromit, whose creator Nick Park won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Wallace and Gromit; Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

C.Jordan

How to make a stop motion animation

All you need is a camera and an object. The idea of stop motion animation is to create the appearance of a static object moving. To do this you need to take a picture of the object then move it a tiny bit and take another picture. You keep doing this until you have finished the sequence. Once that is done you then upload the pictures to an editing programme and put them all in order then adjust the length of each picture so you get 18 frames a second. Then play your animation. The more pictures you take and the smaller the movement of the object the smoother the animation. So that is how you make a stop motion animation. It is easy :) HW

The History Of Stop Motion

The first recorded instance of a stop motion animation was in 1897 and it was called The Humpty Dumpty Circus, in which a toy circus of animals and acrobats come to life. A French film maker called Georges Méliès created a stop motion animation to produce moving title-card letters for one of his short films. In 1912  Italian animator Roméo Bossetti impressed audiences with his object animation, The Automatic Moving Company.
An example of Stop Motion at the beginning of its discovery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gD8Fkgt7TI

More well known uses of stop motion in film is by animator Willis O'Brien and Ray Harryhausen. Willis' work on The Lost World (1925) is well known, but he is most well known for his work on King Kong (1933). Ray was learning from Willis how to do animation in film whilst Willis was working on the film Mighty Joe Young (1949). After that Ray would go on to create classic films such as It Came From Beneath The Ocean (1955), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) and Clash Of The Titans (1981).

C.Jordan

Other Types Of Animation

Hand drawn animation- To create the illusion of movement, each drawing differs slightly from the one before it. As technology has advanced, computers are now used to scan the drawings and backgrounds to make things go faster in production. Examples of these would be The Lion King for modern day hand drawn animations, then Pinocchio for traditional hand drawn animation. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfGCIXgNCf4 –Pinocchio)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sj1MT05lAA –The Lion King)

Rotoscoping- is an animation technique in which animators trace over footage, frame by frame, for use in live-action and animated films. An example would be the 1978 film adaption of the first half of the Lord of the Rings where it was filmed with live actors then Cel shaded into an animation.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjoECYxIBmU –The Lord of The Rings 1978 version)

Stop motion- puppets, clay, cut outs, silhouette, model, object, graphic animation.  This is created by photographing one frame at a time moving the object a bit, then all the photos together will create the illusion that it is moving.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovvk7T8QUIU –Stop motion with objects)

Computer animation- 2D and 3D animations, machinima, the first two are two types of animations done on the computer by creating 2D or 3D gifs, then machinima is where films or shorts are created by screen capturing in video games. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rotating_earth_(large).gif -3D animation)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7dGsF_Og9E –machinima )

Flip book animation- creating movement by flicking through the pages of a notepad and drawing different movements on each one, creating a scene when flicked through quickly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uugzASseSs –a flip book animation)

Full animation- these are mostly films being fully animated to high quality standard which use detailed drawings and plausible movement, Disney produce a majority of these type of animation films
 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QapaqcDucmg –Aladdin trailer) 

C.Jordan

Different Types Of Stop Motion Animation

Pixilation: This is where a live actor is used as a frame by frame subject within the animation. They pose whilst multiple frames are taken and they change position slightly in each frame.

Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know

T-Shirt Wars

Clay Animation: This involves sculpting your model with clay and animating it by moving the clay in each frame. 

Wallace And Gromit

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Paper Animation: Instead of using clay or a live actor, paper animation is the same but, obviously, involves paper instead.

A-Ha Take On Me

Paper Animation

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What is Stop Motion animation?

Stop motion animation is a form of animation which uses a series of photos that capture movement that makes it look similar to video footage

L. Clements