Stop Motion Animation Introduction
Animation - For example, Wallace and Gromit --> Aardman --> Nick Pork/Phil Lord
CGI - Bagpus, Tim Burton films
Special Effects - King Kong (original), Clash of The Titans (1980), Jason and The Argonauts (Ray Harryhousen)
Robocop (original) - Phil Tippet
Jan Svankmajer used clay that was life size.
We looked at Tim Burton 'Vincent' (1982) video, which was a remake of a student film. Disney gave Tim Burton the funds to make the video, and it was based off Vincent Price; Vincent Price also did the voiceover for the film. The film was all based around a poem about how a 7 year old boy wanted to be like Vincent Price. The poem made strong references to The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe.
It also referenced the style of Tom and Jerry as you couldn't see the adults face, like you wouldn't in Tom and Jerry, this gives the idea of an ideal world that doesn't consist of 'big scary adults'.
We also looked at Cameraman's Revenge (1912) by Wladyslaw Starewicz. I didn't like this film as it had lots of insects in and needed editing. However, understandably, the facilities to edit well with the equipment they had in 1912 was limited.
Animation Campaigns
PES - Creating movement out of everyday objects that wouldn't normally move.
Old School Retro by PES - The video is based off old school retro games that are made out of food. The featured games in the advert were Pacman, Space Invaders etc.
Stop motion is used a lot in advertising as it is a different and original way of expressing the motif of the company.
Special Effects - King Kong (original), Clash of The Titans (1980), Jason and The Argonauts (Ray Harryhousen)
Robocop (original) - Phil Tippet
Jan Svankmajer used clay that was life size.
We looked at Tim Burton 'Vincent' (1982) video, which was a remake of a student film. Disney gave Tim Burton the funds to make the video, and it was based off Vincent Price; Vincent Price also did the voiceover for the film. The film was all based around a poem about how a 7 year old boy wanted to be like Vincent Price. The poem made strong references to The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe.
It also referenced the style of Tom and Jerry as you couldn't see the adults face, like you wouldn't in Tom and Jerry, this gives the idea of an ideal world that doesn't consist of 'big scary adults'.
We also looked at Cameraman's Revenge (1912) by Wladyslaw Starewicz. I didn't like this film as it had lots of insects in and needed editing. However, understandably, the facilities to edit well with the equipment they had in 1912 was limited.
Animation Campaigns
PES - Creating movement out of everyday objects that wouldn't normally move.
Old School Retro by PES - The video is based off old school retro games that are made out of food. The featured games in the advert were Pacman, Space Invaders etc.
Stop motion is used a lot in advertising as it is a different and original way of expressing the motif of the company.
Ray Harryhausen
- After WW2, he required over 1000 feet of unused military film and made a series of 'fairytale' short films.
- He had to learn a technique called 'split scene' because of the lack of budget (£200,000), so he had to improvise to get the effects and quality that he wanted
- Split screen is a rear projection overlapping other miniature screens. This resulted in becoming one of the most influential films sic - fi films The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953).
- Jason and The Argonauts (1963) - his most popular film - including the skeleton sword fighting sequence
- He shot no more that 13 frames of film (one half second of elapsed time) per day - had a lot of patience as he worked alone and the filming alone took an average of 2 years
- Monster Inc named the restaurant in the film after Ray Harryhausen as recognition for all of his work.
Some of his well known films
1940 - Evolution of the world
1949 - Mighty Jay Young - Willis O Brian inspired Ray Harryhausen and they both worked together on this film
1956 - Earths Flying Saucers
1958 - Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
1966 - 1 Million Years BC - was a Hammer film that wasn't aimed at kids
1973 - Golden Voyage Sinbad
1981 - Clash Of The Titans
Dynamation
To place stop motion into life action.
Background - live animation
Foreground - Camera that projects
Phil Tippet
Phil Tippet was inspired by Harry Hausen's 7th Voyage of Sinbad
1977 - Star Wars
1980 - Empire Stakes Back
1983 - ROTS (Walkers Rancor)
1984 - Indianna Jones
1996 - Starship Troopers
Stop motion ends --> CGI begins
Go Motion - Incorporates motion blur into each frame - so it looks realistic and not jittery
Motion Blur - How It Works
1) Moving/Bumping the puppet
2) Moving the table
3) Vaseline - piece of glass in front of the lens and
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