Stop motion Essays

  • Stop Motion Ebjective Motion

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    Stop Motion using a camera – Stop-motion animation involves taking a process of pictures of a model, then moving it a small amount and taking the next photo. After this you then put all of the photos together and the small movements of the model appear to be a human-type action. Stop motion animation is basically just a series of still photographs taken one after another. Objects are moved and filmed picture by picture to emphasise small movements that they make. Some examples of stop motion films

  • Stop Motion Essay

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    captures fantasy worlds and engages world history by using traditional hand drawn and CGI techniques. We also learned that these various techniques - anime, hand drawn animation, stop motion, and computer generated imaging are the basis in creating a great performance on film. For my final project, I made a stop motion film by taking several hundreds of pictures and aligning them together to create the semblance of movement. I used sound

  • Stop-Motion Animation: History Of Stop-Motion Animations

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    Disney, Pixar, semi-modern animations on the screen. Through History of Animation when someone now says animation I think of shorts, cartoons, anime, and stop-motion animation. When thinking of animation I think about the hours, days, months, years that go to animation either three-dimensional animations or two-dimensional animations, but stop-motion animation, in my opinion, a more hard form to animate. To create inanimate objects in reality either everyday objects or objects one has created themselves

  • Stop Motion Animation

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    and it provides a comforting feeling to me. Stop-motion animation uses methods that are tedious and time-consuming, while computer animation is less technical and costly. Another way of distinguishing the two forms of animation is physical vs. virtual; traditional animation uses physical materials and activities, while computer animation uses virtual elements in a digital space. Although computer animation grosses more at the box office; stop-motion animation is a medium that often goes underappreciated

  • Example Of Animation Techniques

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    of the chief ingredients of multimedia presentations. Movement – is what makes the animation that you are creating come to life. When creating movement some of the tools that you can use are: motion tweening, key framing and stop frame. Motion Tweening is a feature that allows you easily animate the motion of an object. This allows you to define the object over a series of frames and will automatically move the object from the beginning location to the ending location. Morphing- is a technique where

  • Coraline Film Analysis

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    The Door, the Girl, and the Button Eyes In an old house on a hill somewhere in Oregon, there is a little door in the wall. During the day and to the casual observer, this door leads to nowhere. But at night, if the right person opens it, the door leads to another world. A world where everything appears perfect. A world where mothers make dinner every night, where fathers create spectacular gardens and spend time with their daughters, where there are gravy trains and talking toys, and where jumping

  • Film Analysis: Analysis Of Adam's 'Claymator'

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    AUTEURS THEORY He is a true auteur, as he himself calls the same. His movies are generally based loosely on his family and friends (e.g.-Uncle, Cousin and Brother. He says he love telling stories and biographies about his family and friends, which is why he came up with the word ‘clayography’ He never felt comfortable calling himself an 'animator’ or ‘claymator’. He thought he makes clay biographies. Therefore Adam calls each of his works a "Clayography" - Clay animated biography. All his movies

  • Animation: How It Has Evolved in the Past One Hundred Plus Years

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    When people hear the word 'Animation' the first thing that may come to mind would be cartoon. Although this is partially the correct answer, what many people don't realize is that without animation's history many things we take for granted today would not exist. A lot of the inventions and innovations in the industry of animation would have prevented the film, gaming, graphics, and even the computer industry to almost being non-existent. The story of animation is far from their famous kid-friendly

  • How Did American Animation Influence Australian Animation

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    an Australian animation studio, Animal Logic, in collaboration with various American animation producing companies should be recognised as an Australian animation film. Australian animators had adopted their animation techniques from America. Stop motion animation was first used by American J. Stuart Blackton in 1898. It was used to make a short animated film called The Humpty Dumpty Circus. At its

  • Statement of Written Intentions

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    Statement of Written Intentions My main goal for the production is to successfully produce a short film which combines stop motion animation and live action film. The narrative will be focused around the attempted escape of objects that are normally lifeless. I want to experiment with lighting to create the atmosphere. The lighting will be dark and the only source of light will be unnatural; either from the mobile phone of side lamp. I hope this will achieve a slightly sinister feel to

  • Essay On Stop Motion Animation

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    Animation enhances multiple forms of entertainment and there are multiple type of animation to cater to these mediums. It comes in multiple forms that not many know of, or realize is considered animation. Some of the most popular times are stop motion, 3D, and 2D. Stop motion animation is one of the more tedious but shocking forms of animation. It involves using models, such as objects, or sculptures, and taking multiple photos, each one with the model slightly moved to give it life. Once the photos are

  • Portfolio 1 Documentation

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    wanted to use, and re-encoded the video’s resolution to 1920x1080 and a frame rate of 25p. Because the film is dated, the analogue to digital conversion process has left the film encoded at a low resolution and low frame rate. Because the video is a stop motion animation, the upscaled frame rate won’t affect the video, but improve compatibility. In Logic Pro 9 the lowest frame rate synchronisation available is 25p, and ‘Reflector’ has been encoded at 12.5p, so re-encoding the film to 25p makes difference

  • Style Analysis

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    Tim Burton is noted for many of his mysterious, suspenseful, and thrilling movies. His childhood has influenced the way he writes, screens and portrays movies to his public audience and fans. Four of these outstanding films are Edward Scissorhands, Frankenweenie, Corpse Bride, and Coraline. In these movies, and many of his others, Tim Burton uses a variety of cinematic techniques to portray and express feelings felt by the characters, set the moods, scenes, and the story. Tim Burton uses lighting

  • Analysis of The Wrong Trousers

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    Analysis of The Wrong Trousers “The Wrong Trousers” is a Clay Animation Production (where all characters are made out of clay). Created by Nick Park (a famous Animator) in 1993, “The Wrong Trousers” stars Wallace and Gromit in their second animated adventure (they were first introduced to British Viewers in 1990 in another Nick Park production “A Grand Day Out”.) In this particular adventure we see how bad things can get when technology gets into the wrong hands… “The Wrong Trousers”

  • History of Computer Animation

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    quite normal-looking man of average height, with thinning grey hair, he has been at the forefront of movie animation for almost three decades. Phil Tippett is one of the greatest animators of all time, starting off with the age-old techniques of stop-motion and then moving on to the technical computer generated wizardry of today. I chose to write about him because I greatly admire the work he had done in the industry and he has witnessed first hand the technological advances that have occurred during

  • The Boxtrolls by Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable Will Take Animation to a New Level

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    trailer is any indication of what is to come, the film ‘Boxtrolls’ will take stop motion animation to a new level of artistry. Set for a September 2014 release the trailer is giving its audience a first glimpse of the countless hours, even years, which have been dedicated to the production of this film. ‘BoxTrolls’ takes place in a Victorian-era town and has visually thrown itself into this bygone era while using the stop-motion technique to tell their story. At the beginning of the trailer you can

  • Motion of the Earth

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    As we could see from above picture every latitude have different speed of spinning per hour. And speed of the earth spinning could effect on such as water reservoirs.We don't feel that because everything else is moving with us and because the motion is very, very smooth. Changes in the Earth's spin are measured in terms of length of days. A faster spin shortens the length of daylight. "Due to the reservoir effect," (Chao). "the day 40 years ago was longer than today by about 8 millionths of

  • The two main themes explored in In the Attic and Stop the clocks are

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    The two main themes explored in In the Attic and Stop the clocks are love and loss The two main themes explored in 'In the Attic' and 'Stop the clocks' are love and loss. Both poets express their insight into the knowledge that the world will not stop regardless of the loss of mankind. This, however, is where the similarity ends. Both writers are expressing their own personal way of dealing with losing someone close to them. On Auden's side, there is bitterness in his loss, and an almost

  • Physical Science Lab - the motion of a marble

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    Physical Science Lab - the motion of a marble Objective The goal of this experiment is to develop a theory, which allows us to understand the motion of a marble. Materials Wooden roller coaster, marble, ruler, timer, clamp, physics stand. Theory In this experiment, we are finding the Conservation of Energy. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. Energy is summed up into two different properties: Potential energy and Kinetic energy. The law of Energy states that: Total Energy = Potential

  • Movement Analysis Investigative Study

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    diverse interdisciplinary field, with branches in Zoology, Botany, Physical Anthropology, Orthopedics, Bioengineering and Human Performance. The general role of biomechanics is to understand the mechanical cause-effect relationships that determine the motions of living organisms. In relation to sport, biomechanics contributes to the description, explanation, and prediction of the mechanical aspects of human exercise, sport and play. (TopEndSports, 2013) Subroutines: 1. Stance: Foot positioning (Shoulder