50 Incredible Stop Motion Videos. Advertisement Stop motion animation is one of the hottest areas of film-making today.
Stop motion is an animation art through which one can spring life in inanimate things and do the unnatural. It works by shooting a single frame of an object, then moving the object slightly, and then shooting another frame. When the film runs continuously in a film projector, or other video playback system, the illusion of fluid motion is created and the objects appear to move by themselves. MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU. » Storyboards Bangarang Animation. This is a great little exercise that I got from Story Shots and I tried it on some of my favorite action scenes like the one from Avatar the Last Airbender Book 1 where Katara fights Water Master Paku.
I learned quite a bit from this. And I believe I will be doing more exercises like these. Freeze Frame- Capturing the Moment. Freeze Frame. Xpatriate Englishman Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), a brilliant and eccentric photographer, gained worldwide fame photographing animal and human movement imperceptible to the human eye.
Hired by railroad baron Leland Stanford in 1872, Muybridge used photography to prove that there was a moment in a horse’s gallop when all four hooves were off the ground at once. He spent much of his later career at the University of Pennsylvania, producing thousands of images that capture progressive movements within fractions of a second. Aardman. Pixar. Jerwood Visual Arts.