Research - Present Stop Motion Animations

Stop motion has been used for the whole part of the music video for Coldplay. Pixilation and illustration have been used to create a great stop motion effect for the video. They have done this by taking pictures frame by frame of a live actor moving ever so slightly each time. They have then also drawn an image, then changed the image ever so slightly, to create the illusion of movement.

 

Stop motion has been used to create the whole advert for a nokia phone. Not only is it a very effective technique for creating an advert, but they have also shot the whole advert using a nokia phone, which is an extremely effective way of promoting it. They have used pixilation of one actor, a boat and a series of lines formed using rakes in the sand, to create an image. It was filmed from a birds eye view on a crane, using 3 nokia phones. Every frame has to move, so the crew rubbed out a line, then re created it using rakes, slightly differently every time.

Stop motion is used in many computer games. For example ‘snake’. All the individual images of the different levels and the possibilities of what the snake could look like, have been created. Each image appears one by one, which creates the illusion that the snake is moving.

Stop motion is used in adverts on websites. For example, there is an advert on how to loose weight. There is a drawing of an image of a person turning from overweight to an average size. This is an effective way of advertising because it grabs the audience’s attention as it is a series of flashing images on the side of the website. The illusion of the person’s body weight changing, is created by a series of drawings, each slightly different, which are then all played after each other.