What is Stop Motion Animation?
Stop Motion Animation uses the same principles as drawn or cel animation (cartoons)…….a movie camera is used like a still camera…..there are 24 different drawings (which equals one second of movement) and the movie camera shoots one frame (which is one picture) of film for each drawing (in proper sequence). With Stop Motion Animation, you have a small puppet (about the size of a Barbie doll)….inside this puppet there is a custom machined jointed mini-skeleton (called an “armature”), and it is covered with foam rubber (the puppet skin). A person (the animator) moves the puppet a little bit, then the camera shoots one still picture of the puppet, the animator moves the puppet again…..another still picture is taken…..this is continually done until you get hundreds of still pictures which were taken by the movie camera. When you run the movie film in a projector, all the sequentially shot still pictures of the puppet, gives the illusion that the puppet is moving on it’s own. I
