Technology has changed design. We all know it. Old news. But, though we ARE living in a “fast-moving computer-generated work of animated digital media design” as this task’s description states, there are still a lot of artists using traditional means of animating to create fresh, innovative work. Just as the print designer likes to pick up the X-Acto knife or set their own type every once in a while, many animators still experiment with stop motion techniques. Both produce a texture, quality and overall traditional look that just can’t be faked by using computer software.
Stop motion is, in my opinion, one of the coolest-looking but most tedious-to-make styles of animation. Basically it goes like this: get a real life object, set it up, take a picture of it and then move it a little bit. Repeat ONE BAZILLION TIMES. Then flip through all the photographs and enjoy your 10 seconds of animation. Kidding aside, the jumpy, homemade quality of this style and the amount of detail put into it by the dedicated animator make it a truly unique and visually appealing format.
Stop motion is alive and well today and is used in everything from commercials, music videos, TV series and feature films. Though it sounds time-consuming and monotonous to produce, many report that it is one of the easier forms of animation made simpler by digital film production tools.
The following are some links to examples of stop motion animation productions:
Short film:
Marcel the Shell
Series:
Rasta Mouse
Robot Chicken
Feature film:
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Portfolios:
Mike Please
Laika
Grandchildren
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