Stop motion animation is produced by a range of images which creates a moving image. The quicker the frame rate, the smoother the animation will be.
A frame rate means the amount of frames per second. My flipbook animation was 20 frames per second, therefore I had 20 sticky notes. Frames are the amount of images per second, below is a video explaining more about it.
Illusion of movement
is when the audience are being tricked into thinking they're watching a moving image, when really it is just a range of images which creates the illusion that they are moving. Animators want to specifically create the illusion of movement as it is extremely effective and makes the characters come to life.
persistence of visionthe persistence of vision is where the human eye retains an image for a brief split-second after the image was actually seen, and lends itself to animation by fostering the illusion of motion when we view images in closely-timed sequence to one another. We don't notice the fractional skips between images because that persistence fills in the momentary gap to make the motion seem seamless.
