Can you believe this is a stop motion film? “You don’t get anything for free in stop-motion,” co-director Annable says in the making of the Boxtrolls featurette. “We’ve really got to plan out every single element.” Stop-motion animation is quite simple; you move an object and take a picture. It is, however, extremely difficult to do well. Shooting your film frame-by-frame (there are 24 frames per second in a motion picture) means that the animators must manipulate all the necessary objects in a given scene — characters, sets, props, etc. — with every frame photographed (twice, in The Boxtrolls, as the film was shot with a 3D camera). Then the thousands upon thousands of photographed frames are edited and projected together sequentially, bringing the world to life. (Bryan Abrams, 2014) Read here for more: http://www.thecredits.org/2014/09/the-many-influences-of-the-boxtrolls/ Below is a VCE student's first stop motion which was selected for Top Screen 2013 (Cartoon Cookies, Alexandra Maranon). She took over 3000 photos to create this whiteboard stop motion animation.
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