Unit 23: Characteristics: Techniques and Formats

• Time Lapse:
• A commonly used technique by amateurs and starting up photographers by slowing down the frequency of at which the film frames are played meaning that you can capture something moving faster or slower. Examples are often of of a sun setting or rising, or in lots of cases someone ageing drastically.

• Plasticine + Claymation:
• Famously popularised by Aardman, and the characters of Morph, Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and many other famous pioneers, character-wise. It is done in one of the most famous ways of animation such as making said characters in clay and animating them by moving the characters each frame.

• Found Objects:
• This is a way animation by using utensils and tools that aren't typically used in the art world, such as animating food of perhaps spoons. This style often took place on YouTube, most notably by an animator called PESfilm, who is the animator of the shortest ever film to nominated for an Academy Award for 'Fresh Guacamole'.

• Cut Out:
• This is a form of animation by using paper and layering up different pieces of paper and moving them around whilst going through the same process.

• Puppetry:
• A famous director is Tim Burton who always utilises puppets in his films, such as corpse bride and A Nightmare Before Christmas. His way of animating is very precise but also slightly higher frame rate to show the supernatural nature of his creations.

• Human Stop Motion (pixelation):
• This type of animation is pretty much as the same as the one preceding this list. Given that you are not using any dolls or clay, you are using real life actors.