Creature Comforts
In 1993 Aardman studio’s won as Oscar for the short 30 minute film called The Wrong Trousers. It went on to win over thirty awards. The Wrong Trousers has become one of the most successful animated films ever made.
The Wrong Trousers
In December 1997, Aardman created their first feature length film which was called Chicken Run. It was directed by both Peter and Nick. It was released in June 2000 in the US and UK.Chicken Run was successful as it grossed over $220M at the worldwide box office.
Chicken Run
Aardman Studio’s went on to win a BAFTA for Stage Fright which was an 11 minute film specially made for Channel Four in 1998.
In 2008 Aardman create a Wallace and Gromit film called The Curse of the were rabbit.It was Aardman’s second feature length film which was directed by Nick Park and Steve Box, It went on to win a number of film awards including the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the were rabbit
3.2: Techniques and tools developed to produce stop motion/clay animation
Stop motion has hardly ever been filmed in throughout film history .The first 3D stop motion film was In Tune With Tomorrow which was released in 1939 by John Norling . The second stereoscopic stop motion film was called The Adventure of Sam Space by Paul Sprunk in 1955.The third and latest stop motion short in stereo 3D was called The Incredible Invasion of the 20,000 Giant Robots from Outer Space which was released in 2000 by Alexander Lentjes and Elmer Kaan.
Another more-complex variation on stop motion is developed by who is a movie director and an award-winning supervisor and producer, who specializes in creature design and character animation. Go motion was first used on the films which was released in 1980 and which was released in 1981 and also the films. Go motion involved programming a computer to move parts of a model slightly during each exposure of each frame of film, combined with old-fashioned hand manipulation of the model in between frames, to produce a more lifelike effect?
Stop-motion has changed dramatically since the early 20th century, In fact, stop motion is rarely used anymore, only in children’s tv shows.With the development of digital 3D animation, animating a 3D character in a film has become faster and easier, which is favored by industry,3D animation allows unreal characters to seem to be alive
3.3: Key animators and their creations
A Nick Park was an English filmmaker of stop motion he was known best as the creator of Wallace and Gromit. Wallace and Gromit were produced using the stop motion method. The frames of movies were shot one at a time, changing the position of the models of the characters slightly to give the impression of movement in the final film.
Nick Park has been nominated for an Academy Award six times and won four with Creature Comfort in 1989, in 1993, in 1995, and in 2005.
Aardman Animations decided to hire Nick Park based on his college work-in-progress called A Grand Day out which went on to win a BAFTA Award.
Nick Park got the character idea for Wallace from his old English teacher. Wallace has a similar personality to Nick’s old English Teacher and wears the same clothes as he did.
Wallace and Gromit Nick Park
3.4: Where stop motion animation is used?
Stop motion can be used for entertainment such as films, movie trailers and advertisement and commercial or even music videos. In 1993 Tim Burton created a stop motion musical fantasy film called The Nightmare before Christmas. It was directed by Henry Selick but produced/co-written by Tim burton himself. The film took three years to be produced due to the length of time it takes to shoot stop motion. The main protagonists in the film were puppets that in order to create realism in the film were structured hundreds of face models with different expressions. The main story is about a character called Jack Skellington who is the king of Halloweentown he discovers Christmas Town, but doesn’t quite understand the idea. It was released on October 29 1993.The Nightmare Before Christmas grossed $48 million on its first released.
The Nightmare Before Christmas Tim Burton: creator of The Nightmare Before Christmas
Also Shaun the sheep is a British stop motion animated children’s television show which was produced by Aardman Studio’s.Shaun the sheep is about a sheep which exhibits human intelligence,creavity and behavior in a farm, which usually delivers a situational comedy conflict which he has resolve before the end of each episode.
Stop motion is also used in adverts such as the ebay viral advert. In the ebay advert stop motion is used to show the public or audience what ebay is about. The audience who watch the advert will be able to tell that it is stop as the advert looks as if it’s taken shot by shot.
3.5: Benefits of using stop motion animation
By using stop motion to animate inanimate objects such as the characters from The Nightmare Before Christmas makes the film more interesting for the audience. To animate inanimate objects it is as if the objects come to life. By using stop motion for The Nightmare Before Christmas it would become more realistic and lifelike toward the audience. By using stop motion it aloud the producer to add some cool effects to the film making it more fascinating for them to watch. The Nightmare Before Christmas grossed $48 million on its first released.
Benefits of using stop motion animation for children’s televisions shows is that it makes the children believe that the objects or character is actually moving on it own therefore they would think it is real.
Stop motion is very unique as very few films come out every year. It takes patience for a stop motion or clay animation to be created or made. Every movement of every frame has to be shot for it to work successful. One error can ruin it all. As not many stop motion films come out during the year it would be more entertaining towards the public rather than 3D or cel animation.
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