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Film & Moving Image · Animation

Stop Motion

A topic within Animation, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Film & Moving Image.

Reading on Stop Motion

2

2 works

Paper2008

The Ontology of Performance in Stop Animation

Laura Ivins-Hulley

Compares two stop-motion puppet films to argue that an audience locates 'performance' in an animated puppet's appearance and movement alone, without needing to imagine an actor behind it.

Film & Moving Image · Animation
PaidIntermediate
Paper2013

Parallel Synchronized Randomness: Stop-Motion Animation in Live Action Feature Films

Jane Shadbolt

Argues stop-motion inserted into live-action features works by foregrounding its own imperfect, hand-made randomness against the surrounding photography's smoothness, rather than by hiding the seam.

Film & Moving Image · Animation
PaidIntermediate

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