Stop motion is the animation that we used to see in puppet and clay cartoons. The artist slightly shifts the hero's figurine, films it, and then does this a few thousand times, until these frames ultimately become a cartoon. Artists indulged in this technique more than a hundred years ago, using it to create fantastic effects in the first fantastic blockbusters. Later, the skill of the directors grew and they began to get more impressive stop-motion effects. But be that as it may, they were still unrealistic and looked quite comical on the screen, so with the advent of the digital era, the directors refused to use stop motion in favor of computer graphics (which at first also looked rather poor).
King-Kong (1933) vs Coraline in the Land of Nightmares (2009)
Over time, almost everyone forgot about this type of animation, until Tim Burton came out into the
arena with his “Nightmare Before Christmas” in 1993 and showed that with the help of stop motion
you can still create masterpieces. Since those times, many such masterpiece cartoons have appeared,
such as “James and the Giant Peach”, “Corpse of the Bride”, “Coraline in the Land of Nightmares”,
“Frankenvini”, etc. I want to pay tribute to this style of animation.
arena with his “Nightmare Before Christmas” in 1993 and showed that with the help of stop motion
you can still create masterpieces. Since those times, many such masterpiece cartoons have appeared,
such as “James and the Giant Peach”, “Corpse of the Bride”, “Coraline in the Land of Nightmares”,
“Frankenvini”, etc. I want to pay tribute to this style of animation.
To be said that the very first film using the stop motion technique was used as early as in 1897 (!).
In The Humpty Dumpty Circus film, where a puppet theater with acrobats was built for one scene.
So stop motion can be considered the first special effects technique in the movies.
In The Humpty Dumpty Circus film, where a puppet theater with acrobats was built for one scene.
So stop motion can be considered the first special effects technique in the movies.
But since 1970, technology in Hollywood cinema began to develop more rapidly. The pioneers of the
“new” stop motion were ILM, who made effects the first George Lucas’ films in the Star Wars series.
“new” stop motion were ILM, who made effects the first George Lucas’ films in the Star Wars series.
Just look at this Beauty
Since 1986, the famous British studio Aardman has made the first series of its famous plasticine miniatures, and in the 90s it has already switched to full-fledged full-length cartoons with its main characters of the studio - Walliss and Grommit. Tim Barton made “The Bride's Corpse” and Frankinville with Disney Studios.
On of the most interesting animation directors who used combined methods of animation is Ralph Bakshi.He wasn’t afraid to stir up trouble with his work, and his movies definitely caused a lot of controversy over the years. His first two features, the big screen adaptation of Fritz the Cat, and Heavy Traffic, were both X-rated when they were first released, and Coonskin, which was later given the less inflammatory title of Street Fight, confronted racism in a way that’s still provocative today.
I personally think that art is a way to express oneself in any way possible and thus any kind of
censorship, restrictions or superstitions in art is the same as ones in our everyday life, usually it
can be seen everywhere from personal relationships to corporate and national ethics.
So the questions are:
1.Do you like motion capture animation, or you are more of a modern kid? Why?
2.Have you ever heard of Ralph Bakshi or some of his works?
3.Do you think that animation is for children only?
censorship, restrictions or superstitions in art is the same as ones in our everyday life, usually it
can be seen everywhere from personal relationships to corporate and national ethics.
So the questions are:
1.Do you like motion capture animation, or you are more of a modern kid? Why?
2.Have you ever heard of Ralph Bakshi or some of his works?
3.Do you think that animation is for children only?
Comments
No, i`ve never heard anything about Ralph Bakshi ,But after reading this post, I was interested in searching more about him on the Internet.
In my opinion, this technology will be more appealing to children, of course making advertising with motion capture can be for adults too.
Personally, I prefer the motion capture animation over a modern kid one. I think the explanation of this reaches my childhood as I was watching a lot of motion capture animations back then. I do not mind modern animations, especially when it comes from Pixar or Disney though.
2.Have you ever heard of Ralph Bakshi or some of his works?
Unfortunately I have not. Even more, I have just googled his name and nothing familiar to me came up.
3.Do you think that animation is for children only?
Of course not. I am not a fan of animation on a daily basis, but I am aware, that there is enormous group of people world-wide which spend a lot of time on watching and discussing animation related topics.
Honestly, i've never heard about Ralph Bakshi and his works, but after this article i've just found some information. He is talented person for sure and the things that he created are amazing.
Surely not, animation is not only for children. Every person, who is older than 20 years old, sometimes wants to be a child.
To be honest, I have never heard about Ralph Bakshi before but after reading your article I remembered watching one of his films - "Coonskin" and it is great. He is definitely stood out.
No, animation is not only for children. As I know, a lot of great legendary animators such as Joseph Barbera , William Hanna , Walter Disney, Hayao Miyazaki continued to be engaged in animation at an older age and released awesome work.
yes, I like motion capture but used for game footage animations. It's used frequently and it's giving very satysfying effects :) Why? It looks really realistic.
Even look for few older Mortal Kombat games. In MK1 graphics and animations for those years were stunning!
2.Have you ever heard of Ralph Bakshi or some of his works?
Nope, never heard of this guy :/ I'm fan of Japanese animations and his name doesn't seems familiar to japanese :D
3.Do you think that animation is for children only?
Nope. For those who think it is I have bad news: you havn't watched anything good in your life. A lot of "adult animations" are really good and cannot be replaced by movie with real actors.
2. I have never heard about Ralph Bakshi and I have to admit that I don't know a lot about his works. :(
3. I don't think so. There are a lot of animations for adult e.g. Rick and Morty, South Park or The Simpsons. I really like this kind of entertainment.
I like motion capture animation. I think this is a great technology. It helps animators to do their work faster and better. Before the creation of this technology, there were several simplified analogs and I am glad that this industry evolve.
2. Have you ever heard of Ralph Bakshi or some of his works?
I heard only the name but did not see his work. Sometimes on the Internet, I met funny memes with his version of Spiderman.
3. Do you think that the animation is for children only?
No, I completely disagree. The animation is an art. Unfortunately, many people don't understand this. There are animations with a very complex plot, which even many adults will be incomprehensible.
2. No.
3. No, there are many people in different age who like such an art.
I have never heard of Ralph Bakshi or his works.
I don't think that animation is only for children. For example, Coraline in the Land of Nightmares was really enjoyable for adults.
"Frankenvini", and so forth I need to honor this style of Documentary Video Production Company activity.
Have you at any point known about writing an assignment or a portion of his works?