Stop Motion Animation

7/6/06

One of the first animated films is The Cameraman's revenge, an incredible, bizarre, and funny film made in 1912 by Wladyslaw Starewicz, using actual insects.

He later went on to make a stop-motion masterpiece, The Mascot, which has an incredible sequence that clearly influenced such contemporary animators as Tim Burton. (My own short, Paper Stairs, which you can see on my portfolio website was inspired by the tiny little scrap of paper characters you see here and there in this sequence).

This is jumping ahead a bit, but here are some good stop-motion shorts and websites:

StopMoShorts

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5:23 PM | Permalink

wow, how do u know this film?
it's interesting to me~!

Posted by iikueii | 1:01 PM

I first saw this film in graduate school at the University of the Arts. It is pretty incredible, isn't it.

Posted by Anonymous | 8:55 PM

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Animation History & Practice

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ANIMATION HISTORY

Alternatives to the history taught by the big studios, this blog is about independent animation, fine arts animation, international animation, and experimental animation history.

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