Many of you might be familiar with what stop motion animation is. It’s the kind of animation that all the classics were filmed with. What you might not know is that the origins of stop motion animation go all the way back to Thomas Edison. If you’re interested in learning about it, Georg Rockall Schmidt shares a brief history of the medium and goes into some depth about how stop-motion animation first started. It’s actually quite fascinating. Sadly stop motion animation is a dying breed because of the advent of CGI but it’s pretty incredible to see how this films got made.
Here’s a full description of the video and the video is below that
Stop motion is a technique in animation where objects are photographed as they’re moved incrementally, to create the appearance of movement when those photographs are all put together and shown quickly. Stop-motion animation has existed as long as film itself, and is responsible for special effects, animations in their own right, and a variety of very well-known characters. Here, we explore the origins of stop motion and its evolution.
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