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A
Brief
History
of
Stop
Motion
Animation! |
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From
SearchWarp
by
Dermy
O
Reilly! |
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
animaiton.
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.
Some
other
notable
Milestones
in
stop motion
History
- Edwin Porter directed "The Teddy Bears," one of the earliest stop-motion animation films. A short sequence of playing teddy bears, just over a minute in length, takes over 50 hours to animate.
- Willis O'Brien's "The Lost World" included 49 prehistoric animals in stop-motion, which took a huge step in stop-motion history.
- Willis O'Brien directed another film called "Mighty Joe Young", a well-known film in 1945, with the help of Ray Harryhausen, and stop-motion animator. Ray Harryhausen received the Gordon E. Sawyer Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his technological contributions in 1991.
Stop-motion
has
changed
dramatically
since
the
early
20th
century.
In
fact,
stop-motion
is
rarely
used
anymore,
only
in
children's
TV
shows
do
you
see
such
effects,
such
as
Gumby.
With
the
development
of
digital
3D
animation,
animating
a 3D
character
in a
film
has
become
much
easier
and
faster,
which
is
favored
by
the
industry.
3D
animation
allows
unreal
characters
to
seem
to
be
alive.
To
find
out
more
and
maybe
how
you
can
do
some
of
your
own
stop motion
animation
we
have
lots
of
tutorials
at
StopMotionCentral.com.
Copyright
StopMotionCentral.com
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