27.11.11

Stop Action

Stop motion is one of the topics that has always been attractive to me, although I've always been really scared to try it because of the amount of dedication it requires to make decent pieces of animation.
Films like Nightmare before Christmas and the Corpse Bride from Tim Burton or Coraline by Henry Selick are some of the proves that animations out of the range of 2D and 3D animation are just as strong and beautiful.

A quick gif showing the process in animating Coraline.

The kind of skills the artist have to have for this animations is what makes it more appealing, since computers is in most cases are only used for editing, but the rest of the works has to be handmade. 
The videos below show some adverbs directed by Jamie Caliri and the artist behind it made every single part in paper: 


It is a beautiful way to appreciate the traditional art that teams like this ones produce, because it's impressive how  they don't seem limited by the lack of infinite canvas and the idea of not being able to correct mistakes as easy as a digital artist can.

I'd like to try this sort of animation one day, but I assume that finding an appropriate team to work with most be the most difficult part since there doesn't seem to be many groups that focus on this way of animation.

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