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caw4brandon · 7 months ago
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The Power of Stop-Motion
Media in today's standard is quick and easy. Rarely is a show more than 2 hours long or 13-epiodes per-season. With that, animated movies are a lot slower than the typical films.
There is a discussion on if animation is suitable for film purposes and while it is often shunned by the Golden Globes or the Oscars or other awards. The very few outliers can prove these awards and the world very wrong.
But that is not what we will be talking about today. Because while animation is popular, there is a dark horse among its sphere. One with a rich history and strong filmography that should be shared. Let's talk about;
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- Have I possibly gone daffy? -
Stop-motion is a film making style that compiles multiple still images of an object being physically manipulated in small movements into one whole scene.
Majority of Stop-motion films and videos use [Clay Animation] or [Paper Animation] with several more varieties of new innovations emerging under the umbrella of stop-motion. The most popular of them in the modern era towards kids is [Lego animation] which is the manipulation of Lego models in motion.
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The earliest trace of Stop-motion in films is the 1898 short [The Humpty Dumpty Circus] by Albert E. Smith and James Stuart Blackton which is said to be a lost media. To compensate, please watch [A Tribute to Stop Motion]
In its early concept, Stop-motion was used as a method to create impossible things or do practical effects under budget constrains. Such as the iconic King Kong scene at the Empire State building. Since then, Stop-motion has evolved into a full production industry. From Indies; [Righteous Robot] to Juggernauts; [Laika Studios]
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- Shimmer a Little at The Edges -
Unconventional media such as stop-motion is often not a style suited for every story. Its a rather expensive type of media that requires worthy innovations top break the niche barrier. Just looking at Laika Studios alone, we see that they've develop a lot of interesting ways to improve visual effects while staying to their stop-motion roots.
One perfect example is seen in < Kubo and the Two Strings > where the animators need to create water in a still image world that feels natural. [A Perfect Storm] one other part of the stop-motion puzzle is the iron-willed discipline it to conceptualize, animate and edit a production that can take about 3 to 5 years to complete. More so of a time frame than a normal film.
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This difficult curve lead to budgeted methods such as using models that already exist to tell new stories. Such as; Legos or with crude multi-jointed figures of existing characters. [MOONSHINE]
While I may say its crude, the low budget production is the selling point. Assisted with sound bites taken from gaming sessions or from shows featuring a lot of inside jokes and memes. Also, its hilarious to see a Teletubby turned into a Eldritch monster.
These attempts to make stop-motion productions accessible has captured the attention of other like-minded channels to collaborate and elevate one another. [ERB: Harry Potter vs Luke Skywalker]
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- For Better Tomorrows -
With all that is said, what is the power of stop-motion? As a media that is tediously overlapping across processes. What are the better tomorrows for our inanimate subjects?
I like to think, that as filmmaking grows. Stop-motion will continue to remain as a sacred tug against live action films and traditional animation. It can be used to tell complicated stories with concepts that may look strange if its adapted in a live action.
As I have mentioned in [The Beautiful World of Hilda] animation's greatest strength is simplification. Stop-motion takes the opposite side of that philosophy.
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Its a higher level of world building of the materials with willingness to accept mistakes and ruggedness that gives them that little flavor of life. As an actual touchable thing, the various cartoonish styles can take on a whole new dimension to heighten the style and give it that detail that is less polished.
Stop-motion shows that filmmaking magic can still exist despite already knowing the tricks. Its a media where every frame shown has a significant purpose that invokes a specific flow. That's the power of stop-motion.
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svetzzi · 22 days ago
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jackass-jules · 2 months ago
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artists aren't born with talent, you fucking wet books, they're born with the stubbornness to keep fucking trying. keep bashing your brains into your preferred method of making art until you like it. fucks sake.
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xiakeyra · 10 months ago
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Biblically accurate angel clay animation
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bh-52 · 6 days ago
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Claymation should make a comeback
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craftyxinim · 3 months ago
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A few plasticine experiments (at 5 FPS)
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pixie-skull · 2 months ago
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323rd edit and I used Disney’s Pocahontas, from well, Pocahontas (I included two screenshots of her as one contrast of her older design). Besides having scenes of straight hair like The Nightmare Before Christmas’ Sally, Pocahontas I appreciate has a similar or closer body build too. Lastly, like Sally, Pocahontas default face is sad or worried. I am running out of 3D characters + stop motion women characters to reimagine as 2D or hand drawn characters. Guilty confession, I think Pocahontas 2 is better film compared to Pocahontas 1.
*= I have so far not used one 2D character twice for my reimagining series.
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enchantingpiratepeace · 1 day ago
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Does anyone else vaguely remember the box trolls? Like at all? I have these vague memories of the box trolls but idk how real they are. Also where can I watch it???
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zakkura · 3 months ago
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THE TRAP DOOR - 1986 - Stop Motion Animation
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maryvisceri · 10 days ago
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Buenas gente hermosota preciosa, aquí una tarea de mi clase de diseño gráfico.
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neryscrossoverparty · 1 month ago
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Check out What i Found! It's a Claymation Short film by TenNapel.
Kog Head and Meatus!
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nahmanacles-blog · 2 months ago
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purpl3-cactus87 · 3 months ago
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Y'all I just had a brilliant idea for FNAF:
I'm gonna make a Coraline -esq, Alice (1988), stop-motion and clay animation FNAF movie of my own, in the future
Nobody else can do this, I'm gonna copyright it MY IDEA
PS: posted this on 07/25/24 for future reference
😏
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amberfreckle · 1 year ago
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Lil animation practice :)
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xiakeyra · 10 months ago
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The Ritual
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rechenzentrum · 5 months ago
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i cant believe this wasnt a gif before. no, i can. but it is now. clay animal getting run over by some kinda monster truck quad vehicle and a clay teddy bear
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