20 Facts About Stop-motion animation

Term "stop motion", relating to the animation technique, is often spelled with a hyphen as "stop-motion".

Stop-motion animation believed such a project would take much time and careful effort, but would be well worth it because of the expected marvelous results.

Stop-motion animation mentioned a method of sticking needles in a stroboscopic disc so that it looked like one needle was being pushed in and out of the cardboard when animated.

Stop-motion animation realized that this method provided basically endless possibilities to make different 3D animations.

Stop-motion animation then introduced two methods to animate stereoscopic pairs of images, one was basically a stereo viewer using two stroboscopic discs and the other was more or less similar to the later zoetrope.

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Stop-motion animation used a model of the planet and a light source standing in for the sun.

Stop-motion animation reportedly used stop-motion animation in 1899 to produce moving letterforms.

Stop-motion animation has often been compared to Georges Melies as he made many fantasy films with stop tricks and other illusions.

Stop-motion animation then sketched all the sequential movements on paper.

Part of Shiryaev's Stop-motion animation work is featured in Viktor Bocharov's documentary "Alexander Shiryaev: A Belated Premiere".

Stop-motion animation wanted to document rutting stag beetles, but the creatures wouldn't cooperate or would even die under the bright lamps needed for filming.

Stop-motion animation solved the problem by using wire for the limbs of dried beetles and then animating them in stop motion.

Stop-motion animation's released an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet approximately half a year later.

One of the earliest clay Stop-motion animation films was Modelling Extraordinary, which impressed audiences in 1912.

Stop-motion animation called it Pal-Doll and used it for his Puppetoons films since 1932.

Stop-motion animation directed many short films and experimented with other forms of animation.

Stop-motion animation fled to Manchukuo during the war and stayed in China afterwards.

Stop-motion animation's work helped popularize puppet animation in China, before he returned to Japan around 1953 where he continued working as animation director.

Stop-motion animation started to gain much international recognition in the 1980s.

Sand-coated puppet Stop-motion animation was used in the Oscar-winning 1977 film The Sand Castle, produced by Dutch-Canadian animator Co Hoedeman.