What exactly is Stop Motion Animation?
The stop motion effect (also called stop frame) is an animation recorded one frame at a time using physical objects moving between frames. When you replay each sequence in rapid succession it creates the illusion of motion. If you know the way 2D drawing animation (early Disney) works, stop motion is similarto that, with the exception of using real objects in place of drawing.
The fundamental process of animation is taking a picture of your characters or objects and then moving them around and then taking another photo. When you play back the pictures in succession the characters or objects appear to move in their own.
Stop motion animation is seen frequently in commercials music videos, television features and even feature films, and you’re not aware of it. While it’s normal to think of stop motion as a particular style, like clay animation, the truth is the fact that these techniques can be utilized to create a range of styles for films:
Capturing Stop Motion Animation
The early stop motion movies were recorded by film cameras. Even the best stop motion animators could not know the way their work appeared until their films were processed. They utilized surface gauges to track the position of their characters and how far they had to move their bodies. If the animation wasn’t fluid, or if the set was damaged, or the lighting was poor the work was lost and the animator was forced to begin again.
Later, video cameras let the animator view the most recent two or three frames and then compare them to live video recorded by the camera. This enabled them to get an understanding of the progress of their animation.
Utilizing DSLRs to create Stop Motion Animation
The film was released in 2005. Corpse Bride was shot using the Canon EOS-1D Mark II. It was the first stop-motion feature film made using an electronic still camera. The first DSLRs didn’t have live view, which is a feature that lets the camera offer a video stream of the image via the lens. Therefore, the studio needed a second video camera in order to provide the video assistance.
In 2007 Canon as well as Nikon introduced DSLRs that had live view. Since they introduced DSLRs, they have been utilized to record the majority of the professional stop motion you see from feature films to music videos to television broadcast commercials and series.
Dragon 1.0 (the first version of Dragonframe) was released on March 1st, 2008 and was the first stop-motion software that was able to work with The Canon 40D and the Nikon D90 DSLRs, which had live view. This meant that animators could get a reasonably exact through-the lens preview of their work while they worked.
