What is Stop Motion Animation?

Stop Motion Animation has been well known and used for a very long time. Originally, it involves animating objects which are ‘3D’ only, such as blocks, Legos, toys, etc. However, the stop frame animation does not include hand drawn animation.

It is an interesting and funny way of creating a video clip; but this experiment takes a big amount of time to produce it. It is a technique where objects are being physically manipulated, step by step to create an illusion of objects changing their position on its own. The figure is moved in a small or being changed slightly, after the photograph is taken. This procedure is repeated many times and then series of frames is played as a continuous sequence.

One of the first stop motion animation examples was ‘The Humpty Dumpty Circus’, which was created by Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton. It’s a video where toy circus of acrobats and animals come to life using stop motion animation. The idea might be simple, but the result interesting and realistic. J. Stuart Blackton also created ‘The Haunted Hotel’ in 1907, which in another stop motion film, which was a great success when released.