15 Facts About Stop-motion

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

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Stop-motion 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.

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

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

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6.

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

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

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

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

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10.

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

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11.

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

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12.

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

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13.

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

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

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

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