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 Wallace and Gromit are the main characters in the British animated short films, a series of ten short-animated 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. |
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 History 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 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 clay animation 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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