Stop Motion Animation
3D animated television series started in the 60’s with programs like ‘The Magic Roundabout’ but they didn’t become popular until the 80’s when ‘Trap door’ and ‘Wallace & Gromit’ were created. Since then Stop motion animation has evolved from short 3-4 minute long television episodes to feature length films like ‘The Corpse Bride’ (Dir. Tim Burton) and ‘Chicken Run’ (Dir. Peter Lord and Nick Park).
Trap Door -
‘Trap door’ is a children’s TV series from 1984, it was created for entertainment purposes and is aimed at children aged four to eight. It was created using stop motion clay animation, which is basically taking multiple pictures of a clay figure or object whilst moving it a little bit at a time. When all the images have been taken they are cut/Edited together and when they are played in a sequence it looks like the clay figure is animated.
‘Trap door’ is a children’s TV series from 1984, it was created for entertainment purposes and is aimed at children aged four to eight. It was created using stop motion clay animation, which is basically taking multiple pictures of a clay figure or object whilst moving it a little bit at a time. When all the images have been taken they are cut/Edited together and when they are played in a sequence it looks like the clay figure is animated.
Whilst ‘Trap Door’ flowed almost seamlessly for its time and was simple yet entertaining the one weakness it had was the actual quality of the series (Picture and Sound) but this is less to do with the actual animation and more to do with the lack of technology at the time.
Wallace and Gromit -
‘Wallace and Gromit’ is a children’s television series that was created in 1989 by Aardman Animations and was for entertainment purposes aimed at children five to twelve, although over the years the audience of Wallace and Gromit has gotten larger as the fans who watched it when they were younger continued to watch it as they got older. It was created much the same way to ‘Trap door’ but due to the evolution of technology the stop motion process became more complex to create a much more seamless effect.
‘Wallace and Gromit’ is a children’s television series that was created in 1989 by Aardman Animations and was for entertainment purposes aimed at children five to twelve, although over the years the audience of Wallace and Gromit has gotten larger as the fans who watched it when they were younger continued to watch it as they got older. It was created much the same way to ‘Trap door’ but due to the evolution of technology the stop motion process became more complex to create a much more seamless effect.
The Corpse Bride -
‘The Corpse Bride’ was the first feature length complete stop motion animation by Tim Burton, which was created in 2005. It has been created a lot like Wallace and Gromit due to evolution of technology Corpse Bride has a lot more detail than previous clay animation. One of its strengths is how much detail there is to the characters and sets as well as its seamlessness, as it draws the audience in, but one of its weaknesses would be the use of after effects.
‘The Corpse Bride’ was the first feature length complete stop motion animation by Tim Burton, which was created in 2005. It has been created a lot like Wallace and Gromit due to evolution of technology Corpse Bride has a lot more detail than previous clay animation. One of its strengths is how much detail there is to the characters and sets as well as its seamlessness, as it draws the audience in, but one of its weaknesses would be the use of after effects.
Post it Animation -
Post it animation was created by a student when a deadline for his animation class was coming and he still didn’t know what he was going do, this animation is for both entertainment and educational purposes. This animation uses an actor and real objects (Post it notes) yet the process isn’t that different from the clay animations.
Post it animation was created by a student when a deadline for his animation class was coming and he still didn’t know what he was going do, this animation is for both entertainment and educational purposes. This animation uses an actor and real objects (Post it notes) yet the process isn’t that different from the clay animations.
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