About Stop Motion

There are various forms of stop motion. There is stop motion of objects or people and there is stop motion with clay people (more commonly known as claymaiton).

This video is very clever and one of my favorite. The creator took real images (in the same way one would take digital images for an on-screen stop motion video) and strung them together around his house thus bringing the pictures to life and telling a story through stop motion. Very creative.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Et7UQh1tg [22/6/10 20:12]

Stop motion is really very simiple. Just follow these 3 rules.
1) Move your object ever so slightly.
2) Take picture.
3) Repeat from step 1.
And thats really all there is too it.

I will now post a few videos of different forms of stop-motion.

One the earliest forms of stop-motion is called the Zeotrope and it goes something like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7KiJklgif4&NR=1 [23/6/10 13:39]

The following video is perhaps one the oldest most well known movies made using stop motion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4 [23/6/10 13:46]

The following videos are all modern but follow the same theory as steamboat Willie from 1928

I love Wallace and Gromit! but besides for that, this TV show is entirely stop animated. An amazing job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwQGXKOx_Yo [22/6/10 20:20]


This movie, Chicken Run, besides for being a really rood and funny movie, is stop-animated from start to finish. Just look at the attention to detail!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVdlxwX6A7g [22/6/10 20:31]


In this video the creator used post-it noted to show pictures and to tell the story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpWM0FNPZSs [22/6/10 20:35]


In this video the creator used stop motion to show a pancake being made and eaten. cute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG5gO4nlLRQ [22/6/10 20:40]


In this video the creator used stop animation to solve a Rubix cube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ8ZWMlObGE [22/6/10 20:46]


In this video the creator used a white board and marker to 'draw' a story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GPg8djk5nY [22/6/10 20:51]


In this video the creator has shown a good animation using Lego.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsWFFuYZYI [22/6/10 21:00]


In this video the creator used human beings to recreate the game software. Very original.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0LtUX_6IXY [22/6/10 21/09]