Stop Motion

Stop Motion

stop motion is series of still images with objects moved around each picture to make a number of images into a stop motion video to make it look as though it is moving it self. The most well known company is Aardman Animations who have created the likes of Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the sheep.

Stop motion can be used by using anything such as a person, clay, Lego or any utensils lying around The first instance of any stop motion was by Albert E.Smith and J.Stuart Blackton for vitagraphs The Humpty Dumpty Circus in 1898.

Stop motion is still around and has made some of the most remembered films or tv programmes of all time some examples are.

• Wallace and Gromit: The curse of the ware rabbit (2005)
• Chicken Run (2000)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
• Robocop (1987)
• Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
• The Lego movie (2014)

Although The Lego is more advanced than passed stop motion and has some other added effects to help create the movie it still comes from the stop motion roots.

A more well known version and perhaps the famous version of stop motion is Wallace and Gromit which is made by clay and the moved around to give the effect that the characters are moving around by themselves. Here is an example of how it is created.

An advantage of stop motion is that you can animate inanimate object,  you can also create cool effects when creating your stop motion video.

A disadvantage of stop motion is that it is difficult to get a consistent image quality and can also be difficult to get a good fluid animation.