Sunday, April 4, 2010
Stop Motion
I will always consider this to be a strange animation and yet so common. It was probably one of the first types of animation done with a moving tripod. It's amazing how all of the stop animation advanced to feature movies involving complex stories and intriguing characters. Nightmare Before Christmas is a good example of the complexity of stop motion. After reading the section about how they were able to do the movie in so many sets yet keep it smooth by ways of drawing out every single frame. I bet they could take all of those frames and make a 2d version of the movie. I did enjoy Norman Mclaren's 'The Neighbours' for it's artistic motive of stop motion. It must have been difficult for the actors to jump up the same height each time. It's all worth it in the end when everything is pieced together. Hopefully no fingerprints on the clay and all of that.
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Stop motion has always been one of my favorite forms of animation, but sometimes I feel like a crappy storyline gets in the way...as is the case in Nightmare Before Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy stop motion if it's done the right way. That's kind of tough to do, because you have to have a precise settings and you have to use great sound, whether it's the characters voice or the environment of the setting. I'm thinking about using stop motion for my final, but I'm not totally set on doing that yet because I know it will be difficult.
ReplyDeleteI really love stop animation and I've always been really impressed how much work was put into it, I don't think nightmare a crapy story I think it'd simple but works. I think why so many people love nightmare and stop motion in general is because stop motion is such a difficult art form that not as many people are able to make really amazing movies that way, because of the work. Also, it'd really be heart breaking to watch everything you've worked hard on and realize you have to do some of it over because of a finger print, haha its no joke, it'd be so sad.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what most everyone has to say. Stop-motion animation is a favorite of mine; I'm fascinated by the sets and puppets created. It's astonishing how much time is put into these productions; though I love this style of film, I don't think I'd ever have the patience to create a feature length film in it.
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