Stop motion

Stop motion is the act of taking tons of photographs of object or figures, and through the persistence of vision, making those object appear to be moving.

You'll need time, patience, a camera and a figure or object to animate. Place the figure in front of the camera and begin taking pictures of their every movement, you must physically move the object after each picture to give the illusion its moving like a puppet. Stop animation is a good option if you want to make a cheap film, and you can be as creative as you want with it. The downside is the amount of patience involved being that it takes a long time to make. Though it wasn't until 1933, when stop motion animation truly became popular. The first use of stop motion was right at the dawn of cinema, in 1898,when it was used in The Humpty Dumpty Circus, made by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith.


Two of the most popular films, Coraline and Paranorman, were made using stop motion animation.






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