stop-motion animation
Puppet cinema technique
Stop-motion animation is a filmmaking technique where physical objects are photographed one frame at a time, moved slightly between each shot, then played back in sequence to create the illusion of movement.
The objects might be clay figures, puppets, paper cutouts, or everyday items.
Classic examples include *Wallace and Gromit* and *The Nightmare Before Christmas*.
The technique is labor-intensive—a few seconds of footage can require hundreds of individual photographs—but produces a distinctive tactile quality that computer animation struggles to replicate.
- claymationSculpted-figure animation technique
- armatureRotating electromagnetic coil
- LaikaSoviet orbital dog
- frame-by-frameOne image at a time
- frame by frameEach image successively
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stop-motion animationcomputer-generated imagery
Digitally rendered visual content
CGI · digital animation · virtual production · computer animation · motion graphics