history of stop motion

Stop motion animation is also called stop-frame animation.  This technique includes capturing frames at every movement to produce a moving film. 

Some early examples of stop motion animation is seen the ‘Humpty Dumpty Circus’ (1898) by Albert E Smith and James Stuart Blackton. The audience at the time were shocked at what they saw because they had never seen anything like it before. 

Stop motion has changed since the early 20^th Century and hardly used anymore, only in some advertisements and children’s TV shows.  With the development of 3D animation it became much easier and a faster process and allows the characters to seem to be alive and flow better.