BP #13 Stop Motion

For the last blog post of the semester I chose to do one of my favorite animations, and it is just my luck because it is in the animation form we are discussing this week. Wallace and Gromit are very famous stop motion characters and these animators have been doing this for a long time. Therefore, Wallace and Gromit is an example of some of the best stop motion out there because these artists have had a lot of success and a means to perfect their craft. In comparing Wallace and Gromit to other stop motion animation, I found that character expressions were much more detailed and very similar to drawn animation. This class has taught me that being able to convey expression in animation is very difficult, and I could only imagine how hard it would be in stop motion
An impressive part of this animation in particular, is the artists abilities to make things fly through the air. The soccer balls are shown flying, and the dog is also shown flying through the air as he stops the soccer balls. This week in class, I hope to find out how this is possible using stop motion animation. I could only assume that strings or toothpicks are used to suspend the clay. Another interesting part of this animation is that it is called “Soccamatic” because the character is British and soccer is called football there.

I commented on Ian Crawford and Hayleigh Allingham blogs.

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