Stop Motion Animation

 Stop Motion Animation " is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence".

The advantages of Stop Motion animation is having the ability to make something real that may not be possible in the real world, for example a talking, walking skeleton called Jack from 'Halloween town', trying to celebrate Christmas when he gets transported to "Christmas town".

The movie "The Nightmare before Christmas", made by Tim Burton, took 109, 440 frames to be made and used  227 puppets.

Advantages:

• Many people add stop motion animation to advertisements to help make sure the audience will watch the advertisement all the way through.

• The plot of stop motion animations is important to make sure that these animations capture the imagination of viewers so that they watch the whole animation.

•  Stop Motion animations are unique.

 Disadvantages: 

• Has Stop Motion had its day? It seems to be replaced more and more with CGI.
•  The time it takes to make the animation. 

Is it expensive?
Stop Motion is not expensive if it is a small project, for example some clay and good lighting doesn't cost much. However a project as big as "Chicken Run" or "The Nightmare before Christmas" can cost a lot more...
The Nightmare before Christmas cost 18 million to make!!!


One of the best stop motion animations I have seen, is also the smallest stop motion animation, "Dot".

It just shows how unique stop motion animation is, and how it can capture a viewers imagination.