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List Of Stop Motion Artists
This is a list of artists (animators, directors and producers) who have created stop motion, stop-motion animation. Active years by approximation, mostly based on IMDb information and as much as possible concerning work in the field of animation. The original order of the list is based on the first year of activity. See also * Still motion * List of stop motion films References ;Notes * Tayler, Richard. ''The Encyclopedia of Animation Techniques.'' Running Press, Philadelphia, 1996. * Lord, Peter and Brian Sibley. ''Creating 3-D Animation.'' Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1998. * Sibley, Brian. ''Chicken Run: Hatching the Movie.'' Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2000. * Smith, Dave. ''Disney A to Z.'' Hyperion Books, New York, 1998. * Maltin, Leonard ''Movie and Video Guide.'' Signet Reference Paperbacks, New American Library, Penguin Putnam, New York, 2006. {{Animation Stop motion, *artists People in the animation industry, *Stop motion Lists of artists by medium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stop Motion
Stop-motion (also known as stop frame animation) is an animated filmmaking and special effects technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames is played back. Any kind of object can thus be animated, but puppets with movable joints (puppet animation) or clay figures (claymation) are most commonly used. Puppets, models or clay figures built around an armature are used in model animation. Stop motion with live actors is often referred to as pixilation. Stop motion of flat materials such as paper, fabrics or photographs is usually called cutout animation. Terminology The term "stop-motion", relating to the animation technique, is often spelled without a hyphen as "stop motion"—either standalone or as a compound modifier. Both orthographic variants, with and without the hyphen, are correct, but the hyphenated one is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland became part of Nazi Germany, while the country lost further territories to First Vienna Award, Hungary and Trans-Olza, Poland (the territories of southern Slovakia with a predominantly Hungarian population to Hungary and Zaolzie with a predominantly Polish population to Poland). Between 1939 and 1945, the state ceased to exist, as Slovak state, Slovakia proclaimed its independence and Carpathian Ruthenia became part of Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Hungary, while the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed in the remainder of the Czech Lands. In 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, former Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš formed Czechoslovak government-in-exile, a government-in-exile and sought recognition from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. The territory has a varied landscape, diverse ecosystems, and a temperate climate. Poland is composed of Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the List of European countries by area, fifth largest EU country by area, covering . The capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, and Gdańsk. Prehistory and protohistory of Poland, Prehistoric human activity on Polish soil dates to the Lower Paleolithic, with continuous settlement since the end of the Last Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walerian Borowczyk
Walerian Borowczyk (21 October 1923 – 3 February 2006) was a Polish film director described by film critics as a "genius who also happened to be a pornographer". He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988. Borowczyk settled in Paris in 1959. As a film director, he worked mainly in France.Margalit FoxWalerian Borowczyk, The New York Times 2006 obituary./ref> Biography Born in Kwilcz near Poznań, Borowczyk studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, then devoted himself to painting and lithography, including the creation of posters for the film, cinema, which earned him a national prize in 1953. His early films were Surrealism, surreal animations, some only a few seconds long, including several comic abecedarium, abecedaria. His most acclaimed early films were ''Był sobie raz'' (Time Upon a Once) (1957) and ''Dom (film), Dom'' (House) (1958, with Jan Lenica). In 1959, Borowczyk immigrated to France and settled in Paris. He worked with Chris Marker for ''Les Astr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstitial Program
In television programming, an interstitial television show (or wraparound programme or wraparound segment) is a short programme that is often shown between movies or other events, e.g. cast interviews after movies on premium channels. The term can also refer to a narrative bridge between segments within a programme, such as the live action introductions to the animated segments in the Disney films ''Fantasia'' and ''Fantasia 2000'', or the Simpson family's interludes during their annual '' Treehouse of Horror'' episodes. Sometimes, if a programme finishes earlier than expected, a short extra programme may be inserted in the schedule to fill the time until the next scheduled programme is due to start. American cable channel TBS commonly aired '' TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes'' after shorter-than-average Braves games. For American telecasts of the film '' The Wizard of Oz'' between 1959 and 1968, celebrity hosts appeared in wraparound segments. Opening credits specially de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loeki De Leeuw
Loeki de Leeuw (''Loeki the Lion'', also incorrectly spelled as Loekie de Leeuw) is a Dutch stop-motion TV animation, broadcast on Dutch public television between 1972 and 2004, with revivals in 2019 and again since 2021. It features a puppet lion in short sketches usually not longer than five seconds, which appeared as bumpers between commercial breaks. These animated shorts reached iconic status in the Netherlands, but were also broadcast in other countries including France, the United Kingdom, Austria, Italy, Japan and the United States. Concept Loeki is a lion who usually encounters an absurd situation or does something clumsy in his films. Each short lasted only five seconds and was done almost entirely without dialogue, except for Loeki's catchphrase: " Asjemenou?" ("Well, I ever?" or more informally "What the heck?") which usually appeared as his closing statement to each film. When things turned out in his favor, he typically said: "Voilà!" ("There you go!"). Loeki was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willis O'Brien
Willis Harold O'Brien (March 2, 1886 – November 8, 1962), known as Obie O'Brien, was an American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood "was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history," and is best remembered for his work on ''The Lost World (1925 film), The Lost World'' (1925), ''King Kong (1933 film), King Kong'' (1933), ''The Last Days of Pompeii (1935 film), The Last Days of Pompeii'' (1935) and ''Mighty Joe Young (1949 film), Mighty Joe Young'' (1949), for which he won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Biography O'Brien was born in Oakland, California. He first left home at the age of eleven to work on cattle ranches, and again at the age of thirteen when he took on a variety of jobs including farmhand, factory worker, fur trapper, cowboy, and bartender. During this time he also competed in rodeos and developed an interest in dinosaurs while working as a guide to palaeontolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason And The Argonauts (1963 Film)
''Jason and the Argonauts'' ( working title: ''Jason and the Golden Fleece'') is a 1963 epic independent fantasy adventure film loosely based on the 3rd century BC Greek epic poem '' The Argonautica'' by Apollonius Rhodius. Distributed by Columbia Pictures, it was produced by Charles H. Schneer, directed by Don Chaffey, and stars Todd Armstrong, while co-starring Nancy Kovack, Honor Blackman, and Gary Raymond. Shot in Eastman Color, the film was made in collaboration with stop-motion animation visual effects artist Ray Harryhausen and is known for its various legendary creatures, notably the iconic fight scene featuring seven skeleton warriors. Although it was a box-office disappointment during its initial release, the film was critically acclaimed and later considered a classic. The film score was composed by Bernard Herrmann, who had partnered with Harryhausen on '' The 7th Voyage of Sinbad'' (1958), '' The 3 Worlds of Gulliver'' (1960) and '' Mysterious Island'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Harryhausen
Raymond Frederick Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013) was an American-British animator and special effects creator who is regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of both fields. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he built upon the techniques of his mentor, Willis H. O’Brien, to develop a form of stop motion model animation known as "Dynamation" and advance the field of cinematic special effects. Though not credited as a writer or director on any of the feature films he worked on, the role he played in shaping those he made during his peak years has led to him being regarded as “cinema’s sole visual effects auteur,” and the creatures and sequences he animated are considered some of the most iconic in the history of cinema. Inspired by O’Brien’s work on '' The Lost World'' (1925) and '' King Kong'' (1933), Harryhausen spent his adolescence developing his skills with stop motion, leading to him working under O’Brien on '' Mighty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bury The Axis
''Bury the Axis'' a 1943 stop-motion animated short directed and animated by American Lou Bunin, a famous and successful puppeteer who had worked in Hollywood previously, was released by Paramount Pictures on February 3, 1943. It was part of a British plan to showcase the enemies of Britain as truly evil in the eyes of the public in order to continue the war effort. Kenneth Clark, as head of the Films Division of the Ministry of information that was re-established at the start of the war, argued in 1940 that the public must be convinced of German brutality, stating 'we should emphasise wherever possible the wickedness and evil perpetrated in the occupied countries' Though very little research and historiography has been produced on ''Bury the Axis'', it is often remembered by historians and film and animation researchers as being 'memorable' Background During the Second World War, much propaganda was created, each with its own aim. British propaganda's intentions throughout the wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Bunin
Louis Bunin (28 March 1904 – 17 February 1994) was an American puppeteer, artist, and pioneer of stop-motion animation best known for his 1949 adaption of ''Alice in Wonderland''. Early works While working as a mural artist under Diego Rivera in Mexico City in 1926, Bunin created political puppet shows using marionettes including a production of Eugene O'Neill's '' The Hairy Ape''. Photographer Tina Modotti took many pictures of Bunin and his puppets, including her renowned work, "The Hands of the Puppeteer." Career On his return to the United States, Bunin created animated three-dimensional puppets to appear in the 1939 New York World's Fair in New York City. His 1943 political stop-motion satire, ''Bury the Axis'', is well known. Later Bunin landed a job with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer where he created the stop-motion Prologue to the famed film, ''Ziegfeld Follies''. He was subsequently fired as a casualty of McCarthyism. ''Alice in Wonderland'' (1949) Bunin went on to create a feat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puppetoons
''Puppetoons'' is a series of animated puppet films made in Europe (1930s) and in the United States (1940s) by George Pal. They were made using replacement animation: using a series of different hand-carved wooden puppets (or puppet heads or limbs) for each frame in which the puppet moves or changes expression, rather than moving a single puppet, as is the case with most stop motion puppet animation. They were particularly made from 1932-1948, in both Europe and the US. History The Puppetoons series of animated puppet films were made in Europe in the 1930s and in the United States in the 1940s. The series began when George Pal made an advertising film using "dancing" cigarettes in 1932, which led to a series of theatrical advertising shorts for Philips Radio in the Netherlands. This was followed by a series for Horlicks Malted Milk in England. These shorts have an art deco design, often reducing characters to simple geometric shapes. Pal arrived in the U.S. in 1940, and produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
