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Stop Motion

Stop Motion is a technique that is used to bring static subjects to life through animation. Stop Motion is achieved by moving the subject small amounts whilst taking one frame overtime a movement is made. When all the frames that have been shot are played, it shows movement.

Stop Motion can be thought of as a sequence of photographs. the subject is moved and shot frame by frame to mimic movement.

Stop Motion can be seen all the time. In adverts, music videos and even films and you may not realise it. 

The earliest stop motions were captured with film cameras. The animator had no way of viewing their works until they got all of the film processed. If the animation came back and ended up not being fluid the lighting was poor or if the set and a small tweaking, then the whole of the animators work was lost and has to start the whole stop motion again. 

In 2005, Tim Burtons Corpse Bride was captured by using a Canon EOS-1D Mark. This was the very first stop motion to be be shot on a digital camera. The early DSLR's did not have live view capabilities. In 2007, Nikon and Canon introduced the first DSLR's with live view. Since 2007, DSLR's have been used to capture top quality stop motion.

 https://www.techopedia.com/definition/109/stop-motion-animation
http://www.dragonframe.com/introduction-stop-motion-animation/

 Below is an example of a Stop motion.


 https://youtu.be/3DFzjP6PbnU

 In my opinion, one of the best examples of stop motion is 'Her Morning Elegance' 
https://youtu.be/2_HXUhShhmY
'Her Morning Elegance' required many people in the production. It consisted of 6 weeks of scripting, 3 weeks of storyboarding, a whopping 48 hours of shooting. In the end 2096 photos were shot, the photos were then all time-lined to create the illusion of motion. 
https://youtu.be/JKptYcQuKxc 

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