What is stop motion? What effects can I get? Is it a widely used technique nowadays? These are very frequently asked questions today. We answer these questions in addition to updating you on this little audiovisual world from a graphic point of view.
The stop motion, you could say that it is a technique that will never go out of style. It has been widely used since the early twentieth century, until today. It is a type of animation that has evolved gradually over the years. Thanks to what is quite a flexible method, allows to apply different graphic and audiovisual resources to obtain modern and current or vintage effects.
Stop motion or animation in volume, consists of the continuity of photographic shots, where each photograph varies slightly from the previous one. In this way we can make animations through frame by frame movement, with objects or individuals in a static position.
With this technique of motion graphics, you can achieve unmatched effects and aesthetics. The animations acquire an original aesthetic and very different from the animations that are made today, most of them in 3D. In my opinion, these animations manage to arouse the curiosity of the public both adult and child and draws attention to both more expert viewers as well as beginners, since it does not have the property of being directed to a target audience. This is a very important quality when it comes to wanting to stand out and in some way make yourself known.
Among the most important characteristics of animation, famous factors so well known in our field intervene: the originality and creativity of each author. Depending on these factors, special characteristics such as even more differentiated effects and to stand out within the audiovisual world with different graphic mechanisms.
Another advantage of this technique is that you can get unique effects whether you want to use a high and low budget, referring to the materials you want to animate, you can use resources such as the use of flat colors, with materials such as papers or objects with a special aesthetic such as geometric figures or you can also use figures with volume, if you want to achieve an effect in 3D and in this way get closer to a more updated effect but achieving a more creative effect from the other animations, these effects can be achieved for example with different games of light and shadow.
Many artists interested in audiovisual graphics have dared with this attractive technique.
Rhea Lelina Manglapus
Rhea is a multidisciplinary designer who employs analog and digital technology in your design work. He has worked as a freelance animator in New York and on the film and video design team at Apple Inc., California. His work is characterized by the fact that he usually has a experimental character and his animation techniques are quite original and creative.
For example, your animation Tick Tock is a stop motion that aims to convey to the public the current concern about the situation of the planet from an ecological point of view, through a concise and experimental language. Simple resources are used, using figures formed with different types and shades of paper.
If you would like to see more work by this designer, her portfolio is here.
The Little Prince
Another more well-known and current example is the case of the movie "The Little Prince", directed by Mark Osborne. This movie is based on the novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
This film is characterized by its special mix of audiovisual techniques, which has managed to produce a unique and very creative effect. Employs stop motion and digital animation techniquesThis combination has been very attractive to an adult and children audience, for which it has received rave reviews.
The stop motion fragment uses very manual figures with easily available materials. It uses a range of greenish and yellowish colors, this gives identifying properties to the film, in addition to creating a certain personality to the film.
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