Stop motion animation is the term used to describe animation created by physically manipulating real-world objects and photographing them one frame of film at a time to create the illusion of movement. The object what your working with is moved in small increments creating an illusion when the series of frames is played back as a continuous sequence. Stop motion animation has a long history in film. It was often used to show objects moving as if by magic. The first instance of stop motion technique can be credited to Albert E Smith and J Stuart Blackton. Stop motion was first introduced in 1898 when two people made the humpty dumpty circus. However it wasn't until 35 years later that America truly woke up to stop motion animation, and it was down to one man Willi's O'Brien.
There have been quite a lot of films what have been created by using stop motion but only a few what are really popular. For example Wallice and Gromit is a very famous animation what used stop motion animation. This is because Wallice and Gromit are actually made out of playdoh and playdoh can't move by itself, so what the animators did was take pictures frame by frame and move the position of both characters ever so slightly because if they moved them a little more it wouldn't look right when they play it. The animators would do this process many times until they started to see a scene from Wallice and Gromit to see them move and talk.
Here is an image i found on the internet and what it shows is, is a guy making his own stop motion about a skateboarder moving down a street. As you can also see he's getting close to the camera because he want's to capture every detail of the subject.
Hand Drawn Animation
Traditional animation, also referred to as classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation, is the oldest and historically the most popular form of animation. In a traditionally-animated cartoon, each frame is drawn by hand. Disney used this type of animation, some animators, even those working in the industry today, choose to use the traditional drawn method. Others use computer programmes that simulate the traditional method such as photo-shop. The technique was the dominant form of animation until the advent of computer animation. Most of the cartoon's at this date are created using the traditional animation method because the animators want to use their expertise in drawing and want the consumer's to like the cartoon.
While the animation is being done, the background artists will paint the sets over which the action of each animated sequence will take place. These backgrounds are generally done in gouache or acrylic paint, although some animated productions have used backgrounds done in watercolor or oil paint.
When in the production stage the animators will draw multiple drawings of characters backgrounds, assets. After they have finished drawing they will put them on to a video camera, when he/she has them on the video camera they will make a scene where the animator will show the pictures to the people watching and because they will get displayed fast enough it will trick the human's mind and make them think that they are watching a video this is called persistence of vision.
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