stop motion
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“You cannot edit. You’re dealing with real sets and real props, lit by real light. Stop-motion is to live-action what Ginger Rogers is to Fred Astaire: We do the same steps, backwards in high heels.”
From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2023
Stop-motion animation is the perfect format for the hoarse, whispered messages of "The House": a form of animation where objects gain lifelike but not totally realistic movements, and a painstaking process of art-making.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2022
Stop-motion in the 1920s was painstaking, Jaffe says, and Reiniger had to manually expose every single frame.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2021
Stop-motion comedy is a gold mine of heart and hilarity.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2020
Stop-motion animation involves making minute adjustments to puppets and other objects, frame by frame, to create the illusion of movement on film.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2018
