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The recently released South of Midnight may have an aesthetic inspired by handmade stop-motion animation but it's still ...
All aspects of stop-motion animation will be covered, including puppet construction, animation, lighting, shooting, compositing and editing. Through lecture and demonstration, we will cover ...
The first stop-motion animation film is thought to be 1898's ... Take for example its use of rigging systems as seen on this horse puppet. The rig doesn't help move the puppet but rather enables ...
[Jame’s] work shows that there many ways to do stop motion animation, perhaps a part of what makes it so much fun. One of those ways is to 3D print a separate object for each character shape.
While stop-motion animation is regarded as the easiest way ... Starewicz and Jiří Trnka who laid the foundation for puppet ...
Stop motion animation is often called a lost art, as doing it (or at least, doing it well) is incredibly difficult and time consuming. Every detail on the screen, no matter how minute ...
What is stop-motion animation? Animation is a way of making a film from lots of still images. Each image is slightly different from the one before, and when they are played back quickly ...
The skeleton in "Kubo and the Two Strings" was an over 15-foot-tall puppet. It was created by Laika, a stop-motion animation house. You can watch an exclusive behind-the-scenes video of how ...
Animation is one of cinema's richest and most evocative visual mediums, allowing endless possibilities to take shape on screen. It takes great skill and creativity, especially in stop-motion ...
Melissa Bloom, owner and founder of The Sister's Bloom, on set during a project. (Photo provided.) Melissa Bloom stages a shot for a stop-motion film at The Sister's Bloom studio in Kalispell.
Back then, it wasn’t possible to review animation as it was ... miniature special effects and stop motion — extending a long history of Eastern European puppet theatre into cinema.
Step into the haunting workshop of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022), a stop-motion reimagining of the classic tale!