Don't stop the motion

You may or may not have guessed from the title but this blog is about stop motion animation. For you out there who have never heard of stop motion, shame on you, you uncultured swine !!! (pretentsious moment)

Stop go animation is as quoted from the all knowing wikipedia "an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own". So its moving puppets.

Now I take an interest in stop go animation because my favourite movie EVER, Tim Burton's classic "The Nightmare Before Christmas" was made using the technique. In my opinion there is just such beauty in an in-animate object being given a personality, a voice and a life. And it looks good too.



Unfortunatley for stop motion animation lovers out there they just are not made very often. This is due to that factor that is present in every part of society. MONEY. Stop motion is costly and time consuming. It can take hours to make seconds of acctual film. So it is with this sad fact we can expect to only get at the most one movie a year. But take solace in this one thing my friends. When they are made. They are BRILLIANT