Stop motion

STOP MOTION

STOP FRAME ANIMATION

• Stop frame is an animation technique to make a physical objects appear to move on its own, this is by using individual camera shots of a different movement. Putting these shots together results in an animation clip.

• This process is used for many productions such as Wallace and Gromit and Creature Comforts. These were both produced my Aardman Animations who are one of the leading stop motion animators.

PERSISTENCE OF VISION

Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina.

EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE

Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection.

WILLIAM HORNER

William Horner was another animation pioneer, who created the zoetrope. He created the zoetrope in the year 1834

ZOETROPE

A zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession. It was basically a improvement on the phenkitascope. it lead to the praxinoscope being made and also lead to animation being viewed simpler.

RAY HARRYHOUSEN

Raymond Frederick "Ray" Harryhausen (born June 29, 1920) is an American visual effects creator, writer and producer. He created a brand of stop-motion model animation known as “Dynamation”.

JAN SVANKMAJER

Jan Svankmajer is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media. He is a self-labeled surrealist known for his surreal animations and features.

Aardman, is a British animation studio based in Bristol, United Kingdom. The studio is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit.