STOP MOTION ANIMATION

byMegan

Poulton

HISTORY OF MOVING IMAGE

Persistence of Vision

Frame rates

Technology

VARIATIONS OF STOP MOTION

Stereoscopic 3D stop motion

Go motion

PIONEERS

Simon von

Stampfer

Joseph Plateau

William Horner

Emile Reynaud

Eadweard

Muybridge

And others

SIMON VON STAMPFER

Born October 26th 1792

Austrian mathematician

Benedictine Monastery of Kremsmunster

Stroboscopic discs

JOSEPH PLATEAU

Born October 14th 1801

Belgian physicist

Ill through trauma

Blinded during an experiment

Phenakistoscope

WILLIAM HORNER

Born sometime in 1786

British mathematician

Established a school

Horner’s Method

Zoetrope

EMILE REYNAUD

Born December 8th 1844

French science teacher

Created animated cartoons

Praxinoscope

EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE

Born April 9th 1830

English photographer

Changed his name

Spent much of his time in America

Zoopraxiscope

THOMAS EDISON

Born February 11th 1847

Famous American

inventor

First to apply principles

of ‘mass production’

Great influence on the

first motion picture

camera

THE LUMIERE BROS

Auguste and Louis Lumiere

Born October 19th 1962 and

October 5th 1964

History’s earliest filmmakers

Influenced by Emile Reynaud

Refused to sell their cameras to

other filmmakers

GEORGE PAL

Born, Gyorgy Pal Marczinsak,

February 1st 1908

Hungarian-born American

animator

Immigrated at 32 to work for

Paramount Pictures

Famous for his work with sci-fi

and fantasy

BIRTH OF STOP MOTION

J. Stuart

Blackton (1875 –

1941)

The Humpty

Dumpty Circus

CONTEMPORARIES

Henry Selick

Tim Burton

HENRY SELICK

Born November 30th 1952

American stop-motion director

Interested in animation from

young age

Nominated for a Student

Academy Award whilst studying

Worked for Disney

TIM BURTON

Born August 25 1958

America director,

writer and artist

Influenced by Edgar

Allen Poe and Alfred

Hitchcock “My films are like strange children”

CORALINE

2009 children’s horror,

directed by Henry Selick

Novel by Neil Gaiman

450 workers

150 sets

Similarities to Burton’s

work

CORPSE BRIDE

2005 film, directed by Tim Burton

Shot with Canon EOS-1D Mark II

digital SLRs

Created for Helena Bonham Carter

Jewish folklore

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

1993, Selick and Burton

film

Based on a poem

Over a decade to come to

life

227 puppets

400+ heads

FRANKENWEENIE

Upcoming 2012 film

Parody

200 puppets used

Human hair

Release date

WHY I LIKE STOP MOTION

Childlike aspects

Beautifully done

Natural 3-D effect

Not computer

generated