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Stop motion has been around for longer than a century, it consists of a sequence of still put together to create the illusion of a moving image and was often used before CGI was around to create magically moving objects or enormous creatures like the dinosaurs from the 1925 movie The Lost World. Moving into the 70’s though stop motion became more of a style than an effect and full shows and feature length films have been produced through the decades in stop motion. The British classic Wallace and Gromit comes to mind to most when stop motion is mentioned, in fact the production studio responsible for the crackers twosome has produced a whole host of stop-motion features including chicken run. For other Tim Burton may also come to mind as he has greatly increased the popularity of this style with movies such as Nightmare before Christmas.
The process can be very tedious but it mostly involves moving the characters or props a tiny amount at a time, then taking a still, then repeat however it is very interesting to me that this can in fact make a single moving image file from so many still images. Because of this I feel that creating a stop motion piece with small figures will compare nicely to using smallgantics.
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