How do you do stop motion?

Answer 1

Stop Motion refers to an animation process whereby the animator moves a inanimate object by small increments while taking a snapshot / photograph at each new position. Repeating the process a number of times gives the impression of movement or animation to the still object when the images / photographs are played back to the observer in quick succession. The replay rate is referred to as the FPS or frames per second. There are a number of different styles of stop motion namely, 3D object, 2D Cel or direct manipulation animation, cutout animation, sillhoutte animation and timelapse. They all share the common theme however of recording minute changes and replaying the recorded changes back in quick succession to the observe to give the impression of animation. The most popular recent exponents of stop motion is Nick Parks Wallace and Gromit. However there is a thriving hobby community of amateur stop motion animators active on the internet animating legobricks, clay etc. The vast majority of stop motion animation is done on computer using either a digital camera or in the case of the amateur a high end web camera. There are numerous software applications available to capture the images and in some cases add sound ,music and after effects.

Answer 2

stop motion is a series of photos of a moving object played through faster then the human eye can cope so the photos appear to be moving.