Stop Motion Formats
Clay animation
Each object or character is sculpted from clay or other such similarly pliable material as Plasticine, usually around a wire skeleton called an armature, and then arranged on the set, where it is photographed once before being slightly moved by hand to prepare it for the next shot, and so on until the animator has achieved the desired amount of film. Upon playback, the Human Mind of the viewer perceives the series of slightly changing, rapidly succeeding images as motion.
A consistent shooting environment is needed to maintain the illusion of continuity: objects must be consistently placed and lit, and work must proceed in a calm environment.
A subvariation of clay animation can be informally called "clay melting".Any kind of heat source can be applied on or near (or below) clay to cause it to melt while an animation camera on a time-lapse setting slowly films the process.
Producing a stop-motion animation using clay is extremely laborious. Normal film runs at 24 frames per second (frame/s). With the standard practice of "doubles" or "twos" (double-framing, exposing two frames for each shot) 12 changes are usually made for one second of film movement. Shooting a 30-minute movie would therefore require making approximately 21,600 stops to change the figures for the frames; a full-length (90-minute) movie, 64,800--and possibly many more if some parts were shot with "singles" or "ones" (one frame exposed for each shot).
The object must not altered by accident, slight smudges, dirt, hair, or dust. Feature-length productions have generally switched from clay to rubber silicone and resin cast components.
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WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_animation
Paper Cut Outs
Cutout animation is a technique for producing animations using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs. The world's earliest known animated feature films were cutout animations (made in Argentina by Quirino Cristiani); as is the world's earliest surviving animated feature.
Today, cutout-style animation is frequently produced usingcomputers, with scanned images or vector graphics taking the place of physically cut materials. South Park is a notable example of this transition since its first episode was made withpaper cutouts before switching to computer animation.
More complex figures depicted in cutout animation, such as insilhouette animation, often have joints made with a rivet or pin – or when made on a computer, an anchor. These connections act as mechanical linkage which have the effect of a specific, fixed motion.
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Toy-Mation/ Puppet
Toy-mation uses a toy, such as an action figure or a Lego figure as the model used for animation. Toy animation works as you move the model / toy step by step to create a full movement due to a some toys limited movement, it causes a more robotic feel especially from lego, since lego is the most commonly used in toy-mation. This would also Count as Puppet animation due to the fact the animator ( usally lego for inexperienced ) moving and using a pre model to recreate or create scenes depending on what was planned. The difference between puppets and Toymation is that puppets can filmed constantly meaning it would count as a stop motion
Mixed Formats
(Robo chicken)
Mixed formats is usally where formats a mixed to create a series of textile complicated scenes/ scenery, Commonly mixed together are usually Toy-mation/Puppets and clay animation.
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