Harold Edgerton's dynamic stop-motion photos from last century revealed the intricacies of human bodies in motion.

The first is to stop or freeze the motion. Using a fast shutter speed (1/500th of a second or faster), you can stop almost any kind of action. This works from little league to professional sports.

And eventually he did. Muybridge’s work, The Horse in Motion, settled the question of unsupported transit once and for all. Yes, all four hooves leave the ground at the same time.

“And when you see a stop-motion character in our world, it has an emotional quality to it. We wanted to treat it like a documentary — shooting in a real house in LA with a live-action crew.

They built an Arduino-based rig to do inexpensive stop action photography. As Arduino projects go, it isn’t very sophisticated. The circuit contains a sound detection module and an optoisolator.

Stop motion was deemed too time consuming: painstakingly animating clay or wooden puppets by hand, frame by frame, so that, played in succession, photographed frames mimic real action.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio's puppet fabrication supervisor Georgina Hayns shows us how she make puppets for stop-motion animated films. How do you show the animated evolution of the wooden boy ...

For the few scenes of actual video (i.e., not stop motion), the porta-jib was employed to give a sweeping, cinematic feel to the shots, acting as a miniature crane.

Users can choose between adding Loop and Bounce effects to their photos by tapping on the preferred edit tool. Update: Motion Stills is now available on Android devices running Android 5.1 or later.