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Some facts about Coraline Stop Motion animation movie :

  • Based on a novella called Coraline (2002) by Neil Gaiman.

  • Produced by LAIKA and distributed by Focus Features.

  • Directed by Henry Selick ( The Nightmare before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach)

  • Release February 2009

  • Made $17,000,000 on it's opening weekend.

  • Up to 450 people worked on Coraline

  • Filmed in a 140,000-square-foot warehouse with 150 sets

  • The movie use Claymation style stop motion animation techniques.

  • Neil Gaiman is a top writer for modern comics.  He was the creator and writer of the DC comics Sandman. Neil also has a number very well received childrens books (besides Coraline) such as his first book “ the Day I swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish” in May 1997. The Coraline book before it was released as a movie sold over 1 million copies worldwide.

 
Early Claymation MoviesHistory of Stop Motion Animation
Stop motion animation has been around for a long time, almost as long as traditional film-making. Originally stop motion involved animating objects which included the animated movement of any non-drawn objects such as toys, blocks or any rigid inanimate object you care to mention. This was quickly followed by cel animation. And then animators experimented with clay animation ( claymation ) and puppet animation which is what you may be familiar with in Wallace and Gromit and so forth. Some early examples of stop motion films and techniques can be seen in the “The Humpty Dumpty Circus” (1898) and in “Fun in a Bakery Shop” (1902). In 1907 “The Haunted Hotel” was a very successful movie with the cinema audience of the time. In 1912 one of the first claymation movies using stop motion was released to great critical acclaim. It was called “Modeling Extraordinary” In 1916, the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, began experimenting with clay stop motion. She released her first film in 1917, Romeo and Juliet. December of 1916, brought the first of Willie Hopkin's 54 episodes of "Miracles in Mud" to the big screen.

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Clay Animation Wallace and Gromit

Wallace and Gromit are the main characters in the British Stop Motion animated short films, a series of ten short-animated claymation sequences, and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animation. All the characters were made from moulded plasticine modelling clay on metal armatures, and filmed with stop motion clay animation or sometimes called Claymation.

 

 

 

Quick Webcam Review for stop motion animation!

Budget Webcam - The Microsoft VX-1000 - $17-$25

I have to admit I am always shy of using the low end webcams for stop motion animation. But I have to say I was presently surprised by the Microsoft VX-1000 webcam. More on that later. I purchased it in Europe for 19.99 Euro. But I think you can get them in the US for as low as $17.

The packaging is the usual high quality you would expect from a Microsoft product. It comes with a CD containing the drivers for Windows XP/Vista. The USB cable is about 1 metre long (which is plenty long..Some webcams I have used have really short leads). Build quality is very good. It has a circular base which can open to allow you to clip it on to your computer screen very neatly. For stop motion animation you will either need to use blue tack or build some kind of frame /base for it.

I performed a very simple test animation with LEGO® minifigures with a distinct change in colour between the two characters. The second one had a green background which upset the camera somewhat in that I had to alter the white balance manually to get a more true representation of the colours. The video below shows the quality of the image. Comments on the animation expertise the video quality is surprisingly good for a $17 webcam. I shot at 640x480 30FPS , with 15 FPS for the animation.

 

Conclusions - Worth the money - Yes !

PROS - Very cheap, good quality for the price, easy to setup, good manual focus for the money, 640x480 @ 30FPS convincing.

 

CONS - No zoom, tricky to adjust the focus without disturbing the camera when doing stop motion animation.

 

 

 

 

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