stop-motion animation

film technique

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animation history

  • Filming Jaws
    In motion-picture technology: Animation

    …can be achieved by “stop-motion” or “stop-action” cinematography, the frame-by-frame photographing of a similarly phased series of drawings (see Figure 9 ) or the phased movement of such objects as puppets, marionettes, or commercial products. And, as in live filming, the camera itself can create movement by tracking into…

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  • The Wild Robot
    In animation: Early history

    …Blackton also experimented with the stop-motion technique—in which objects are photographed, then repositioned and photographed again—for his short film Haunted Hotel.

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Harryhausen

“Jason and the Argonauts”

  • Jason and the Argonauts
    In Jason and the Argonauts

    …the Argonauts, Harryhausen created impressive stop-motion animations, including the seven-headed Hydra that guards the Golden Fleece and the bronze giant Talos who destroys the Argo. The most memorable scene, which took Harryhausen four months to create, was the battle between Jason and two Argonauts and an army of skeletons. Bernard…

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