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Every time you watch a stop-motion anything, you’re watching a time lapse of a sculpture being manipulated. Kirsten, more than any other young stop-motion artists I know, really embraced that in ...
Audio is another key element in stop motion animation. Look for an editor that allows you to add voiceovers, sound effects, and background music. Access to a stock library of royalty-free music can ...
Stop motion is often the ideal choice for quirky, unconventional and unusual stories that filmmakers want to tell. The deliberately unpolished or uneven movements of the puppets can become a way ...
Stop-motion films utilise the technique of physically manipulating objects, or puppets or clay, between individually captured frames, creating the illusion of independent movement. As I detail in ...
IN 1999, when director Nick Park was in production on his stop-motion animated feature "Chicken Run," the conventional wisdom in Hollywood held that computer-generated films such as "Toy Story ...
How did “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” a short created in one person’s bedroom, become a full-scale, stop-motion feature film? Meticulously.
This week, the pioneering studio Laika returns with “Missing Link,” the stop-motion animated family film starring Hugh Jackman and Zach Galifianakis. With “Missing Link” landing in ...
The merits of movement When first shooting stop-motion animation you’ll be tempted to move something in each frame. That’s not necessary or even desirable.
Stop motion animation is the art of manipulating objects and photographing them in single-frame increments using a motion picture or a digital camera to create the illusion of movement. You can ...
Stop-motion is a form of reanimation where physical objects gain lifelike movements. It’s why films like Kubo and the Two Strings from Laika feel so different from Pixar fare. This same quality ...