Stop motion movies10/5/2023 ![]() ![]() To mention a few : Cameramen’s Revenge (1911), The Insects Christmas (1912), The Frogs Who Wanted a King (1922), Fetiche (1933).Ĥ. Other works: Starevich was one of the inventors of puppet animation, and has many original works that are still rewarding. For facial expressions, for instance, he used sometimes hundreds of tiny masks. Taking Goethe’s adaptation of the medieval legend as the source, Starevich created a world of talking human-like animals that still amazes. Though completed in 1930, its release was delayed due to technic problems associated with transition to sound and funding. The first puppet feature ever made, by the artist who virtually created and enormously popularized the technique. Of a special note is he production design and creation of fantastic creatures for a cult horror Viy (1967).ģ. Other works: Ptushko is legendary in Russia as the director of fairy-tale films, most of the live-action. The film is a dazzling mix of advanced (for its time) stop-motion, political propaganda, fantasy, and sci-fi. Of hilarious note is the song “My Little Lilliput Girl”, performed as a parody of bourgeoisie culture. The Lilliputian land is filled with dozens of hilarious anachronisms-the nobility is dressed in wigs and XVIIIth century clothes but rides in limousines, the soldiers wear medieval armor but also have tanks and gas masks. The hero is played by the real child actor, but is surrounded with a cast of thousands of puppet Lilliputians. A mid-30’s Soviet reimagining of the Gulliver stories, it has a typical Communist kid dream of himself as a Gulliver in the land of the reactionary Lilliputian monarchy. This film is ripe for rediscovery as a cult classic. Of those, the most impressive are Papageno (1935), The Frog Prince (1961), Aucassin and Nicolette (1975).Ģ. Other works: Lotte Reiniger only made shorts for the duration of her long career, most in the same silhouette style. The changing color tints and depth of background still looks impressive today. With the help of the legendary avant-garde filmmaker Walter Ruttman and another original and highly creative animator, Bertold Bartosch, Reiniger created a fantastic tale that combined the stories of Prince Achmed and Aladdin from “1,001 Nights” into a kaleidoscopic adventure with flying horses, raging elements, grotesque demons, and magical backgrounds. The cutout puppets resemble those of Chinese shadow theatre, but the technique used to bring them to life is stop-motion. ![]() Recognized as the first animated feature ever made, this silhouette marvel has retained its capacity to enchant and mesmerize. This list consists of a variety of films made using stop-motion, and was compiled in order to best illustrate this unique art form.ġ. Much like each painter has a unique brush stroke, each animator creates a uniquely looking work, as the creation of characters and scenes is literally a hands-on experience here. But it’s still alive and well, with new interesting works coming out almost every year. With the advent of CGI, stop-motion is considered passé. That’s especially true for more advanced works, with multiple characters. ![]() As there are 24 frames in a second of film, it can take hours to shoot each second. To make the character move, the filmmaker has to take a picture, adjust the figure, take another, and so on. The final results are often fascinating, but the process is traditionally painstaking. Most commonly, it’s associated with puppet, but over the course of cinema development other mediums were used as well-figures made of clay (claymation), puppetoons (ready-made figurines), silhouettes. What started as a novelty turned into an art form when artists with unique skill and vision began making their films utilizing it. Soon after, stop-motion films began appearing in Europe. It’s rumored that the legendary cinema pioneer Georges Melies accidentally discovered it when his camera jammed once, and upon restarting it he noticed how everything slightly changed. Before the days of CGI, it was a primary way to produce special effects, in classics from King Kong, to Jason and the Argonauts, to Star Wars. This technique has been used since the dawn of cinema to bring objects to life and manufacture magical worlds.
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