The basic process of Stop Motion animation is involves
taking a photograph of an object or a character by moving it slightly and
taking another photograph and when you move it consequently, the objects or the
characters appear on their own
According to Lestyn Roberts the 1898 Humpty Dumpty Circus happens to be one of the first stop motion movies. The stop motion technique was used by both Albert E. Smith who was an American Film producer of the Silent Era and J. Stuart Blackton who was the pioneer and co-founder of the American Vitagraph Company.
The Movie consisted of a circus and wooden acrobat toy
animals. It is said that Albert E. Smith borrowed his daughter’s toy animals
and used them as the characters of the film which were brought to life by
capturing the movements of the wooden toys fram by frame by means of a camera and when the sequence of images were played it created movement.
In 1989 the movies was produced and released at the cinema
in the U.S.A as a black and white film.
IESTYN ROBERTS, 2013. Albert E. Smith & J.
Stuart Blackton, "The Humpty Dumpty Circus" (1898) -. [ONLINE]
Available at:
http://splinebomb.com/albert-e-smith-j-stuart-blackton-the-humpty-dumpty-circus-1898/.
[Accessed 18 November 2014].
The stop motion technique is seen
all the time especially in TV advertisements, music videos, Television shows and
films.
Stop motion comes in different
styles such as:
Paper cut out Animation
Claymation (clay animation)
Puppet Animation
Object Animation
Pixilation
Silhouette Animation
The Video below is an example of a clay Animation the character has been sculpted in clay but the sets has been done in cardboard. Joseph Walles states that the entire clip as been shot with a Canon 5D and a DragonFrame which is a mechanism that provides video assist tools for the animator and it is a central hub for capturing and organizing high resolution frames form the camera.
Claymation (Clay Animation)
The Video below is an example of a clay Animation the character has been sculpted in clay but the sets has been done in cardboard. Joseph Walles states that the entire clip as been shot with a Canon 5D and a DragonFrame which is a mechanism that provides video assist tools for the animator and it is a central hub for capturing and organizing high resolution frames form the camera.
Joseph
Wallace. The man who was afraid of flying, 2011 on Vimeo. [ONLINE] Available
at: http://vimeo.com/33320789. [Accessed 18 November 2014].
Puppet Animation
Puppet animation uses similar
techniques that are used in Claymation the only difference is that the puppets
are ready made rather than having to be sculpted in clay.
Lívia Molnár.Séta (Walk)
2011 - Puppet Animation, 2012 Beautiful Cutout Animation) Cloud Bread -
"Cloud Bread" (first episode) - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEoseZw_tok. [Accessed 18 November 2014].
Cut-Out Animation
Paper cut-out animation is one of
the oldest and simplest animation techniques. Cut out animation involves
producing 2D characters, props and sciences cut out from materials such as
paper, card and sometimes fabrics. Laybourne (1988, pp.60. 61) This technique is usually done by dividing the characters
into small sections, piece together the individual cut-out shapes and move them
in small steps, and taking a picture at each step, to create the illusion of
movement.
These days Cut-out animation is often produced by using computers, by
replacing physically cut-out shapes with digitized, scanned images. Cut-out
animation is a popular technique because it saves production time and leads to
smaller file size.
Gimcman. (Beautiful
Cutout Animation) Cloud Bread - "Cloud Bread" (first episode), 2011 -
YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEoseZw_tok.
[Accessed 18 November 2014].
Pixilation
Ashish Garg states that Pixilation
animation can is one of the most demanding forms of stop motion animation for
this kind of animation live actors are moved in front of the camera rather then
moving objects bit by bit in front of the camera ( Ashish Garg,2013.
Stop Motion Animation: Another
Approach to Animation [ONLINE] Available at:
http://www.maacindia.com/blog/index.php/stop-motion-animation-another-approach-to-animation/.
[Accessed 18 November 2014].)
Oren Lavie.
Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie,
2009. - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY. [Accessed 18 November 2014].
Object Animation
According to Ashish Garg "Object animation involves the animated movements of
non-drawn objects such as toys, blocks, dolls, etc"
PESfilm. Western
Spaghetti by PES, 2008 YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjLW5_dGAM. [Accessed 18 November 2014].
Silhouette Animation
According to Ashish Garg “Silhouette
animation involves characters who are only visible as black silhouettes. This
is usually accomplished by back-lighting detailed cardboard cut-outs, though
other methods exist. It is partially inspired by shadow play.”
John Paul
Sawan. Saccharine (Silhouette Animation), 2009. - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available
at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgBY_oqouSk#t=19. [Accessed 18 November
2014].
Referencing
IESTYN ROBERTS, 2013. Albert E. Smith & J. Stuart Blackton, "The Humpty Dumpty Circus" (1898) -. [ONLINE] Available at: http://splinebomb.com/albert-e-smith-j-stuart-blackton-the-humpty-dumpty-circus-1898/. [Accessed 18 November 2014].
Joseph Wallace. The man who was afraid of flying, 2011 on Vimeo. [ONLINE] Available at: http://vimeo.com/33320789. [Accessed 18 November 2014].
Lívia Molnár.Séta (Walk) 2011 - Puppet Animation, 2012 Beautiful Cutout Animation) Cloud Bread - "Cloud Bread" (first episode) - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEoseZw_tok. [Accessed 18 November 2014].
Gimcman. (Beautiful Cutout Animation) Cloud Bread - "Cloud Bread" (first episode), 2011 - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEoseZw_tok. [Accessed 18 November 2014].
Oren Lavie. Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie, 2009. - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY. [Accessed 18 November 2014].
PESfilm. Western Spaghetti by PES, 2008 YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjLW5_dGAM. [Accessed 18 November 2014].
John Paul Sawan. Saccharine (Silhouette Animation), 2009. - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgBY_oqouSk#t=19. [Accessed 18 November 2014].
Kit, L., 1988.,
The animation book. New York, Three Rivers Press.
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