Stop Motion Animation
Stop motion animation is where an animation is created
through the movement of physical objects such as clay figures and puppets. The
illusion of movement is created through taking a sequence of images and moving
the objects slightly per frame. Once the images are played back quickly the
viewer will have the illusion of the objects moving on their own.
James and The Giant Peach is a stop motion animation film
with live segments shown frequently throughout; right at the very beginning of
the film and during the film. Even though there are live action scenes within
the film, some figures of characters still remain the same in those scenes.
In the Nightmare Before Christmas, another stop motion animation film, there were over 120
workers working on 20 different sound stages for the stop motion animation.
Overall, there were 109,440 frames taken to complete the film. Different heads
were created for the puppets to portray every different emotion, facial
expression and mouth movement.
Pingu and the other characters and objects in the show
are made of clay. In order to film an episode, each object and character figure
would have to be moved slightly and then captured. The same is for Postman Pat where the characters are puppet figures and are moved around slightly per frame as they can be handled and re-figured rather easily.
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