Movies News - Digital Spy: Stop-motion animation has been used for years to make some of film and TV's most iconic characters come to life.
A YouTube user has made a video called Stop Motion Animation: A History to celebrate some of the best animated films to have used this form of animation.
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I absolutely love stop motion animation. The detail and time and effort they put into it is so impressive. It's fascinating to see how far they have progressed with this style. In the beginning they were just so choppy. And now it's gotten to the point where I actually had no idea the movie was made from stop-motion. The ones from 2012-2014 I originally thought they were just normal animation, but now that I know they are stop-motion, that just makes them all the more impressive.
Stop motion animation when done right is unnoticeable by the viewer. When people find out that a movie was done in stop motion they are blown away. Special effects are used so often these days within video editing that an audience assumes that what they are seeing is not actually there and it's just a a computer animation. Stop motion animation is one of the most time consuming, detail oriented things I know, but I would really enjoy the work and its process. The amount of work that goes into a single image is mind blowing and the intricate framework of each character is crazy. Take Paranorman for example. This movie was created using replacement animation where each second of dialogue uses 24 individual faces. Each face of every character needs to be hand replaced to get an accurate depiction of text. This show used 8,000 pound of printing paper to create 300 puppets with over 40,000 faces and only 127 human years and you get a stop motion film!! Very time consuming, but the product is mind blowing.
I am absolutely in love with stop motion animations. The more advanced the animation becomes, the less and less like stop motion it becomes, but these pieces have a quality that other animation pieces do not have. I can not put my finger on it, and it is in part due to the fact that the most famous stop motion movies are done by the same director or animation teams. I personally find all those example to be beautiful in style and technique. The sculptures that are the characters are beautiful in themselves and the way the characters move just seem to be so much more delicate than the characters in other animation videos. Also, I have such a huge appreciation for stop motion and the amount of patience it takes from everyone involved that it is really one of my favorite art and movie forms. When I was growing up The Nightmare Before Christmas and Wallace and Grommet were the coolest things to be watching. My nightmare would be that stop motion become a lost art in the new ages of more advanced technology.
There is a magic to stop-motion animation that has stood the test of time. Even though on more recent films the movement has become much more fluid, they retain the hand-made, comforting quality that digital animation cannot quite replicate. There is beauty in the fact that artists continue to create films in stop-motion despite the monumental amount of highly involved, detail oriented work required. From an artist's viewpoint, I am not quite interested in working in the film industry because of how heavily they rely on technology, but it is apparent that there are still genres, such as stop-motion, where artists can still thrive!
I love stop motion animation. I used to want to be a stop motion artist and I admired one of my friends who made a lot of mini stop motion films. I tried to dip my toes in a little bit of stop motion in high school (and it didn't go very well) but I admire everything about it and I would love to be involved in stop motions! I grew up with Wallace and Gromit and "Nightmare before Christmas" and those movies really made me fall in love with the art. I remember watching a behind the scenes of Wallace and Gromit and I thought it was amazing how they created an entire miniature world in which these characters live in! I love how detail oriented and time consuming it is and I love how much work is put into it. I think it's beautiful and one of the most amazing spectacles of the world!
Stop animation is a totally worth honoring and pay attention to. Just the time commitment that is required for the production of stop animation, or at least the traditional stop animation that I am thinking of. One of the newest movies “Box Trolls” I would be surprised if the movie was not produced somewhat on the computer. Not sure how that works but stop animation I am relating to clayamation which is probably something completely different. Either way stop animation gives the film a very unique look and feel . This look and feel puts these films in a slightly different category and feel. This is actually quite interesting to see how these films are produced. Is it like a picture book where you draw a million picture just a slightly ahead of each other and flip through it. Similar to the turn of the 19th century films.
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