History of stop motion

Stop motion (also known as stop frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence.
The first instance of the stop motion technique can be credited to Albert E. Smith and J.Stuart.Blackton for The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1897), in which a toy circus of acrobats and animals comes to life. This was the beginning of the very basic stop motion which was seen with full potential to create something further. Stop motion started off as animation with models and objects a successful animator Willis O'Brien created a milestone for stop motion when he create King Kong in 1933.




At 1.45 seconds we see the use of the stop motion which is already creating the effect of an animation having realistic features which it this is trying to create. However with our video we are trying to create a less realistic approach and trying to make the video as abract as possible.

An example of present day succesful stop motion is Wallace and Gromit. Although this is also animation it is important we still look and research into this as this is where stop motion orginated through animation and how it has progressed into real life stop motion like our own music video.
Nick Park created Wallace and Gromit and has been very successful in creating numerous sequels within this franchise. Because a second of film constitutes 24 separate frames, even a short half-hour film like A Close Shave takes a great deal of time to animate well. General quotes on the speed of animation of a Wallace and Gromit film put the filming rate at typically around 30 frames per day — i.e. just over one second of film photographed for each day of production. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is an example for how long this technique takes to produce quality animation; it took 15 months to make.
Even within the filming industry we can see a lot of time and effort goes into stop motion even with the resources and equiptment that we dont have.