The Principles Of Animation

Exaggeration

Exaggeration in stop motion is when you exaggerate the actions, facial expressions, and moods of a character thing. You create dramatic expressions and scenes in your animation.

Solid Drawing

Solid drawing is creating 2-D cartoon animation into 3-D animation by adding value and shading to create a 3-D elusion.


Appeal
You animation has to look appealing and unique to attract viewers and have visual personality of its own.
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Timing

Timing is having a smooth nice action or effect, to create something great with patience and the right timing.

Rymdreglage 8-bit-trip

Food About You

Check out this awesome film!

The Sandercurl Technique

This stop motion technique creates the elusion that the clay is actually moving off the ground. Although the clay actually never leaves the ground at all. I think that this stop motion tip is useful because it allows you to create the elusion of jumping. The clay never leaves the ground, the clay is moulded into a stretchy piece of clay and is brought onto the ground on the other side. This tutorial is demonstrating the squash and stretch technique.

Thaumatrope

History: 

The name means ''turning marvel'' or ''wonder wheel''. Dr. John A. Paris made the toy popular and was an animated entertainment for children.

How it works: 

The Thaumatrope is made up of a small disc and is tied together by two pieces of string. You work the toy by pulling both ends of the string and that rotates the circles which creates the feeling of movement. When the Thaumatrope is spun the movement creates an illusion that flowers appear to be actually in the vase. 

Why is this toy important:

The toy was important because it was the start to the area of animation and provided children with  animated entertainment until the final development of the modern cinema. The toy later got turned into the Phenakistoscope a much more advanced version of this simply animated toy.

Bionicle Stop-Motion

I found this stop-moton very interesting because I like the technique of how the combined film and stop-motion together it makes a really cool effect.

Dot the Worlds Smallest Stop-motion

The stop motion techniques I learned:
One of the stop motion techniques I learned from watching the making of Dot was that since Dot  is so small they needed a camera that could magnify blood samples to capture Dot. Anther technique I learned was they used a metal rood to move around dot through the scenes and then the edited it out for the final finish of Dot. One other technique I learned was they made many different versions to solve the problem that she is not posable.