stop motion

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“It’s so good to know this art form we love so much — stop motion — is very much alive and well,” said co-director Mark Gustafson.

From Seattle Times

This is the first year that both the top two contenders are stop motion, and if either of them win, they'll be the first winner since 2005, and only the third ever, to not be exclusively computer-animated.

From Salon

He says the form “gave opportunities to play around with meta gags of faces falling off and looking behind the camera. You can get away with a lot in stop motion, incredible, mind-boggling stories that are both relatable and strange.”

From Los Angeles Times

Richardson and his associates have superimposed on it just about every trick of the trade since the flickers began — silent technique, complete with subtitles; images speeded up by undercranking; stop motion; spoken asides to the audiences; irises and wipes, and everything from hand-held cameras to helicopters.

From Los Angeles Times

In 2014, CBS promoted “Rudolph” on its 50th anniversary with ads that used stop motion to show the renowned reindeer and Sam the Snowman walking around the network’s backlot, meeting the stars of some of its other shows, including Mayim Bialik of “The Big Bang Theory” and Michael Weatherly of “NCIS.”

From New York Times