So, now you know what stop motion is, how we define the different types, and also what is not stop motion.įor beginners, this is possibly the most popular, well known and versatile form. It also includes the Direct Method, which is drawing and painting directly onto film stock, then projecting the result through a mechanical projector. This is what I’m calling mechanical animation and includes the persistence of vision toys (Zoetropes, Praxinoscopes, flip books, spinners). There is one more method of animation that involves animating the physical world, but its not in the category of stop motion.
That’s part of the fun of animation, to play with techniques and leave people wondering how on earth a film was made. Often many forms of animation will come together to make one film. In my article What is Animation I offer an introduction to the different forms of animation, this is where you can see where stop motion animation sits in the bigger picture of animation.Īs techniques overlap and adaptations are made, sometimes it’s not that clear how something has been made. Or it might be some combination of keyframes, and digital ‘tweening’.
#STOP MOTION ANIMATION WATCH ONLINE#
Most animation that we watch online is made with digitally produced images, that doesn’t mean that its not made frame by frame, it might still be. Looking at ‘types’ is about raising our awareness. We can animate anything, but do we? Sometimes by seeing and amazing animated film, we are inspired to try something completely new, or to just alter something we are currently doing to make it better. This helps us to develop what we are doing, get ideas to try and expand our own animation practice. The key thing is that by separating out different ‘types’ of stop motion, we can see how far animators can push just one material. I have listed 11 different types in this article, and offered some great examples to illustrate them too. Exactly how many types of stop motion there are is a mute point, since you can animate just about anything. Many people may assume that there are only 6 types, but I am arguing that there are many more. Sand animation is animated any grain like substance, usually sand. For example clay animation is animating any clay like substance.
Even though most stop motion animators will use some form of digital post production to enhance or alter the image further nowadays, and many will mix and merge different types too.Įach technique or type is generally named after the material used to make the animation (movement). The key defining factor is that you are working in the physical world, not the digital world. This is the key – you are creating the illusion of movement by your physical actions, by how you move an object or material in front of the camera. You could be photographing a puppet, or a person, a collage or anything that you can move in order to create the illusion of movement.
#STOP MOTION ANIMATION SERIES#
That is of photographing a series of images, where something has been changed in each frame. There are lots of terms used to describe stop motion, but they all follow the same principal. You may not even know it by the name “Stop Motion”, you may have come across it as “Claymation” or “Stop Action Movies”. But it’s the kind of physical scene you make and the way you alter it that lends it’s name to the type of stop motion that it is. ‘Stop motion’ is simply the process of making a moving image frame by frame by altering a physical scene, photographing each frame, and playing it as a sequence. So what are these different types? …and how and why do we define them? People often use the term ‘Stop Motion’ to describe a form of animation, but they are probably only referring to one specific type of stop motion.
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