Wednesday, 24 February 2016

UNIT 7 Stop-motion animation: a timeline of


1897
Alber E. Smith created the first ever stop motion animation named 'Humpty Dumpty Circus' where toys comes to life an perform acrobatics.

1903
most special effects were produced with stop motion animation due to inspiration from the French film 'Georges M'elics'




1912
'Modelling Extraordinary' was the first stop motion animation to use clay 







1925
Willis O'Brian a famous animator used stop motion animations in his film 'Lost world' to promote stop motion






1933
Willis O'Brian then went on to create a second stop motion animation film that became his most successful and memorable movie: 'King Kong'






1977
Walt Disney begins to experiment with stop motion animation creating several Mickey Mouse series





1980
Star Wars trilogy uses stop motion animation for AT-AT walkers and AT-ST walkers





1987
Robocop used stop motion animation with life sized puppets and mixed it with live action






1998
The first stop motion series 'The PJ's' was created by Will Vonton






2005
The classic characters of Wallace and Grommit were created alongside a series and several films made by Nick Park






2009
The use of stop motion animation became rather rare however Fantastic Mr.Fox became hugely popular


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