S What are the principals of stop motion production?
The principals of stop motion are quite simple. If we're looking at the time aspect, the number of frames you take in order to move your model/object determines the time it takes for the action to happen. The more frames you have, the more realistic and life-like your model will move, resulting in a better quality picture. Where as if you take fewer frames, your models movements will look robotic and jumpy causing it to look unprofessional and rushed. When animating your model you should think carefully about overlapping and follow through. If you look at something living such as humans, we move multiple parts of our body constantly, so when you're trying to make a model look realistic you should think about these movements i.e. swaying or swinging its arms. This will help drastically in creating life like characters in your stop motion. Another key factor to a realistic model is arcs and poses. poses are important as people don't stand in static positions when doing things such as communicating, for example a common pose would be to slouch especially if in an informal situation. Also if there's any diagetic sound on the set i.e. doors opening and closing, your model should react to it as we do.
The Clangers-Oliver Postgate (Creator)-(1969)
The target audience for the clangers is aimed at young children from babies to about 5 years old.
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad- Gordon Hessler-(1973)
Lee Hardcastle born 1985
Gumby- Warner Bros Inc-(1995)
Wallace and Gromit:The Curse of the Were Rabbit-(2005)
| Claire Jennings | producer | |
| Cecil Kramer | executive producer | |
| Peter Lord | producer | |
| Nick Park | producer | |
| Michael Rose | executive producer | |
| Carla Shelley | producer | |
| David Sproxton | producer |
Corpse bride-Tim Burton-(2005)
the target audience for Warriors Dance would obviously be towards prodigy fans, but also people interested in stop motion because its a really good idea and upcoming animators will use this clip for inspiration.
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad-Centaur vs Griffin
In this clip we see the claymation models straight away. As soon as it appears you can tell that the animators have spent a lot of time creating detailed movements of the model and they have thought hard about the principals of stop motion to make sure it looks as realistic as possible. At 0:12-0:15 we get a good look at the Centaur and its constantly moving around, as appose to standing in one spot. This effects the audience into thinking that the creature could actually be animatronic or a costume because the movements are so realistic. Also the animators wanted to show that the creature feels threatened and its movements help the audience to believe this. They have also used a lot of overlapping movement such as the swinging of the tail, and the arm movements which gives the model a much more life like appearance, resulting in a better quality picture for the audience which keeps them interested. The scaling of the model has been done really well to make it look much bigger than the human actors, and to combine the live actor with the animated model which is hard to create but very effective.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit
This film is clearly aimed at children aged around 5+. I think this because of the amounts of dialogue within it and the narrative may be too complex for any younger child to understand. The detail that has gone into making these models look realistic is unbelievable. When animating these characters, Nick Park (the creator) spent hours and hours moving his models millimetres at a time, taking thousands of images per frame, meaning he would get the smoothest and most life like actions and movements as he possibly could. The outcome of his dedication resulting in his audience believing that they were watching a computerised animation as appose to claymation. To have this effect on the audience proves that the creator achieved all the principals of stop motion and took them to the next level.
The Prodigy-Warrior's Dance
The animators of this clip have done very well to combine real life movement with their animated objects. At 1:20-1:25 we watch the cigarette packets transform into human like figures as they fall off the shelf, but at the same time the other packets that aren't changing are falling in real time as appose to stop motion. This effects the vision of the audience making the paper models movement look more realistic. The combination of real life movements such as fire, cars, lights etc and the models i think is a really effective idea and i'll be incorporating it into my animation. The fact that the stop motion characters are embedded into the real life movements adds a huge aspect of realism to the video.
Old vs New
Looking through my timeline you can clearly notice the development of stop motion over the years. The degree of detail put into the latest stop motion animation compared to older animation is mind blowing. Its clearly recognisable when we put two of my clips together i.e. the Clangers and Corpse Bride, that the animators of Corpse Bride spent vast amounts of time making sure the movement of their models was as life like as possible, also the facial expressions and body language plays a crucial role in adding realism to the characters and we can tell the animators have paid a lot of detail in making these factors as effective as possible. In my opinion the animation that has covered the principals of stop motion the best would be Wallace and Gromit. The amount of detail on the models is quite slight, but that isn't an issue because of how fluent their movement is. Nick Park made sure he used all principals of stop motion to his advantage such as overlapping movements.
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad-Centaur vs Griffin
In this clip we see the claymation models straight away. As soon as it appears you can tell that the animators have spent a lot of time creating detailed movements of the model and they have thought hard about the principals of stop motion to make sure it looks as realistic as possible. At 0:12-0:15 we get a good look at the Centaur and its constantly moving around, as appose to standing in one spot. This effects the audience into thinking that the creature could actually be animatronic or a costume because the movements are so realistic. Also the animators wanted to show that the creature feels threatened and its movements help the audience to believe this. They have also used a lot of overlapping movement such as the swinging of the tail, and the arm movements which gives the model a much more life like appearance, resulting in a better quality picture for the audience which keeps them interested. The scaling of the model has been done really well to make it look much bigger than the human actors, and to combine the live actor with the animated model which is hard to create but very effective.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit
This film is clearly aimed at children aged around 5+. I think this because of the amounts of dialogue within it and the narrative may be too complex for any younger child to understand. The detail that has gone into making these models look realistic is unbelievable. When animating these characters, Nick Park (the creator) spent hours and hours moving his models millimetres at a time, taking thousands of images per frame, meaning he would get the smoothest and most life like actions and movements as he possibly could. The outcome of his dedication resulting in his audience believing that they were watching a computerised animation as appose to claymation. To have this effect on the audience proves that the creator achieved all the principals of stop motion and took them to the next level.
The Prodigy-Warrior's Dance
The animators of this clip have done very well to combine real life movement with their animated objects. At 1:20-1:25 we watch the cigarette packets transform into human like figures as they fall off the shelf, but at the same time the other packets that aren't changing are falling in real time as appose to stop motion. This effects the vision of the audience making the paper models movement look more realistic. The combination of real life movements such as fire, cars, lights etc and the models i think is a really effective idea and i'll be incorporating it into my animation. The fact that the stop motion characters are embedded into the real life movements adds a huge aspect of realism to the video.
Old vs New
Looking through my timeline you can clearly notice the development of stop motion over the years. The degree of detail put into the latest stop motion animation compared to older animation is mind blowing. Its clearly recognisable when we put two of my clips together i.e. the Clangers and Corpse Bride, that the animators of Corpse Bride spent vast amounts of time making sure the movement of their models was as life like as possible, also the facial expressions and body language plays a crucial role in adding realism to the characters and we can tell the animators have paid a lot of detail in making these factors as effective as possible. In my opinion the animation that has covered the principals of stop motion the best would be Wallace and Gromit. The amount of detail on the models is quite slight, but that isn't an issue because of how fluent their movement is. Nick Park made sure he used all principals of stop motion to his advantage such as overlapping movements.
Genre, style and audience
There can be a wide range of audiences within stop motion due to the different styles in which it can be created. The more popular use would be claymation, seen mostly on children's programmes as they enjoy the cartoon aspect of the characters, also the simplicity of the character design in children's claymation means they can understand the characters much easier as there's less for the children to process. This means it's easier for them to enjoy. A lot of stop motion is now used in advertisement as it's different to most generic adverts and will draw consumers in, meaning better promotion for the product. Its also used a lot in modern tv, because it's much cheaper to create sets and characters as they're not as big as a set for human actors nor do they take as much time.
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