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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.
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 ( 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.
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.
On the site we also have a tutorial section for those new to the hobby of stop motion with some basic instructions on how to make animation 3D claymation movies, brickfilms or a legomation movies. We review 3D stop motion animation software packages to help you to choose the one that is right for you and to help you to make the best possible stop motion animation claymation or brickfilm movies.
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