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 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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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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Stop-motion's released an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet approximately half a year later.
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Stop-motion called it Pal-Doll and used it for his Puppetoons films since 1932.
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Stop-motion directed many short films and experimented with other forms of animation.
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Stop-motion started to gain much international recognition in the 1980s.
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