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Kulsoom Middleton

Stop-motion animation: everything you need to know

An Aardman animator works his magic on set of the Wallace and Gromit stop motion movie.

Stop-motion is a captivating animation technique that brings inanimate objects to life through a series of captured photographs. It is traditionally used to make stop motion animation films, but the technique has been adopted into videos, art projects and recreated digitally in the best animation software.

Made famous by Aardman Animations in the Wallace and Gromit films (but dating back decades) this animation technique works by moving physical objects and models, in small increments between each shot. Doing so, animators can create the illusion of continuous motion when the images are played in sequence.

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