Animation- Techniques of animation - stop motion

Stop motion animation is a technique that makes real objects move by moving them slightly each frame rate. this gives the illusion that the objects are moving on their own and brings life to the objects. this technique was first used in 1897 with the animation the humpy dumpty circus, which a toy circus of animal and people comes to life. stop motion usually uses clay objects because there easy to move into shape. this became known as claymation and became a very popular technique in stop motion. as animation progressed so did stop motion. the quality of the stop motion improved greatly and so did the length of the animation. animation companies then did more and more stop motion films and became more successful as people became more familiar with this technique of animation. a example of a successful television series/ film which used only stop motion animation and claymation was Wallace and Gromit. this was the first major successful stop motion animation in england and spanned several series and also a film ( the curse of the were rabbit) which made 26 million pounds at the box office. other successful stop motion films include Chicken run and fantastic mr fox both of which where successful. however stop motion is not as popular as other techniques in animation.

chicken run

wallace and gromit

fantastic mr fox