What
is Stop Motion Animation?
Stop Motion Animation is where an object is
being manipulated physically to move on its own. The object is moved in small
increments between individually photographed frames, this then creates the
whole illusion of movement when the series of images are compiled onto a
sequence.
Examples of stop motion can be from the
popular TV series ‘Wallace and Gromit’ (1990-2010) which uses clay objects to
create figures, characters and the mise-en-scène, with the assortment of other
materials to name a few, for its scenes. This method of creating animation is
called clay-mation; clay animation.
An example of Stop
Motion/Clay-Mation – The Wrong Trousers – Train Chase – Wallace and Gromit:
Flipbook Animation
Flipbook animation is also stop motion and requires
the same amount of effort as on each page of the notepad, doodlepad or flipbook
has to be redrawn in correlation to the previous image. For example the video
URL below named ‘Matrix style flipbook animation’ basically represents flipbook
animations as a whole.
Matrix style flipbook
animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UocF4ycBnYE
Other examples of Animation
Many cartoons require the same method of flipbook animation however it is more digital than on paper. The same attention to detail which is similar towards flipbook, however easier and has lesser room for mess-ups as you can undo and easily erase mistakes without any traces.
For example the popular TV series 'The Simpsons' (1989-) uses the same method, with storyboards, animators, etc.. This is explained in greater detail in the article below.
The Simpsons - Marge becomes a Cop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_r_S2Lio3I
http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/25/9457247/the-simpsons-al-jean-interview
