magic lantern- a magic lantern was essentially an early projector that showed a series of still images. The fluidity and smoothness of the projected images, would not be very good compared to today's standards and would be very choppy. Although in 1850, when magic lanterns were becoming very popular, the audiences would still have been very impressed with the movies produced from the magic lanterns. Through out the years the magic lantern was developed and the movies made with them became slightly better.
Phenakistoscope- A Phenakistoscope was a device that created an illusion of movement by moving very fast in a circular movement and making all the images seem to combine into one continuous moving image. For example it could animate a bouncing ball or walking person.When done correctly the Phenakistoscope could look reasonably fluid and give a good illusion of movement.
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Christaan Huygens- Christaan Huygens was a pioneer of stop motion and his work would have been incredible because at the time there was nothing like it. This would have allowed audiences to experience a new experience of an animation. however compared to a modern day animation his animations are not as smooth and fluid.
The work of the early pioneers is was amazing and revolutionary back then but since then animations have increased in quality because technology has improved.
claymation - claymation is an effective way to create a stop motion, this form of animation is purely clay and it does create a illusion of fluid movement if done correctly. movement in the puppets must be gentle to prevent your puppet breaking or cracking. A good example of a professional claymation is Wallace and Gromit a grand day out, which shows how good claymation can look and also gives a great look at what kind of style claymation is. More basic claymation clips can be found on YouTube,
found objects- a found object animation is one that uses random objects to create an animation these can include food and drinks. A common food item in found objects stop motion is fruit, it is a good object to animate because its colourful and a lot can be done with it, for example the fruit could be chopped in tiny pieces or just move around.
Time lapse- time lapse is when loads of photos are taken and then played together to make the illusion that lots of time is passing. This technique is often used to show a very long process like painting a picture or making a stop motion.
cut- out- a cut out animation is very basic and is made out paper or card. the animation is usually simple and doesn't have much happening.
brick animation- brick animation uses thing like Lego to create animations. it is quite good as there is lots you can do with it.
stop motion can be used to create feature films that entertain an audience, these films can have a range of audiences from a niche audience to a mass audience and appeal to many different age groups. Anomalisa for example is aimed at adults and a niche audience and it is designed in a dark and realistic style that mirrors the darkness and problems of real life (seen in figure 1). Anomalisa is not appropriate for children and is purely made for the entertainment and enjoyment of adults. where as a movie like Wallace and Gromit: the curse of the were-rabbit has a nicer and friendlier look to the style giving it an appeal to a larger, mass audience and is aimed at children, although it is aimed at children unlike Anomalisa its not only the target audience that can watch the movie. For example the movie could be seen as a family and even though the adults might not enjoy the movie as much as the children,the movie can still be entertaining for all ages and audience types unlike Anomalisa.
Advertising using stop motion helps to interest the audience and keep them focused on the point of the advert and to make the remember the advert for longer. For example the money supermarket advert, this advert is weird and interesting compared to a normal advert you would see. This intrigues the audience and make them want to watch on. The advert is aimed at adults.
Tv- stop motion is sometime used to create TV show and has different audiences. For example their are kids shows like morph, that are purely aimed at children and their entertainment There are also stop motion animation Tv shows aimed only at adults like robot chicken that children cant watch.
music video- SMA can be used in music videos aid the video and make an entertaining video.
