PES is an American director and stop-motion animator who focuses on short films and advertisements. He is well known for his short film Fresh Guacamole and his commercial for the Honda Motor Co. entitled "Paper". PES is known for animating with everyday objects such as pin cushions, rubber bands, Rubik's Cubes, post-it notes, dice, poker chips and bubblewrap. PES' films are engaging and playful and have a polished finish to them. The use of his hands future heavily as they are often doing something within the film. PES uses a Nikon camera to photograph each frame before being edited together. He uses a 45mm perspective control lens to shift the plane of focus to ensure the whole frame is in focus and creates a model effect to make his films look miniature. He sees his all his films as experimental and creates while he works.
Morph is a stop-motion comedy animation produced for the BBC by Aardman Animations. Morph is a small human like character who is formed from clay and often gets in a comedic tangle with his white clay friend Chas. Morph is often found in areas such as desks or on top of cupboards. Morph's clay body is often experienced with by Chas pulling him in half or engaging Chas' head. The sounds both characters make are childish and naive adding to the humour for children.
Aardman Animations
Aardman Animations are best known for their creation of Wallace and Grommit. They were responsible for Morph animations and use a similar technique. Over the years the animation has developed into and innovative claymation. All sets and props are built from scratch from a number of materials and paintings and characters are known as puppets. Often more complex puppetry is required but the core to puppets are made from skeleton frames with joints which are covered with foam latex before being finished with plasticine This is so the puppets are lightweight when animating. The use of puppets achieves more complex animation. Aardman has also experimented with rapid prototyping and 3d printing. Puppets have removable facial features and eye sockets that are structured to allow the features to be animated smoothly. Aardman come across all kinds of problems when animating including the lights in the studio getting warm and deforming the plasticine puppets. The attention to detail is so accurate their work is close to life like.
Robot chicken is a mature comedy sketch show animated in stop motion using moulded silicon dolls. The creators write the sketches and record the vocals before the animation process starts. The animator then listens to the recordings and reads and acts out the sketches himself to understand how the characters will move and how the gestures look. The studio uses Dragon Frame stop motion software when animating each sketch and often play on 'cameos' of famous actors or figures. Robot Chicken uses Random comedy in it's sketches creating a slap dash style animation with stickers for mouths to animate speech and stock special effects.
Christopher Raeburn
Aardman Animations are best known for their creation of Wallace and Grommit. They were responsible for Morph animations and use a similar technique. Over the years the animation has developed into and innovative claymation. All sets and props are built from scratch from a number of materials and paintings and characters are known as puppets. Often more complex puppetry is required but the core to puppets are made from skeleton frames with joints which are covered with foam latex before being finished with plasticine This is so the puppets are lightweight when animating. The use of puppets achieves more complex animation. Aardman has also experimented with rapid prototyping and 3d printing. Puppets have removable facial features and eye sockets that are structured to allow the features to be animated smoothly. Aardman come across all kinds of problems when animating including the lights in the studio getting warm and deforming the plasticine puppets. The attention to detail is so accurate their work is close to life like.
Robot Chicken
Robot chicken is a mature comedy sketch show animated in stop motion using moulded silicon dolls. The creators write the sketches and record the vocals before the animation process starts. The animator then listens to the recordings and reads and acts out the sketches himself to understand how the characters will move and how the gestures look. The studio uses Dragon Frame stop motion software when animating each sketch and often play on 'cameos' of famous actors or figures. Robot Chicken uses Random comedy in it's sketches creating a slap dash style animation with stickers for mouths to animate speech and stock special effects.
Christopher Raeburn
Christopher Raeburn is a fashion designer who creates stop motion shorts to document and promote his designs. An interesting technique used in this stop motion is the sound effects are sampled from cutting of fabric and stitching. All the sound effects heard are sampled sounds from the fashion studio.
Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen is a special effects legend who has worked on a large number of productions including Mighty Joe Young, Clash of the Titans and Jason and the Argonauts. Much of his work involved making large dimensional model and busts from a variety of rubber, sponge rubber and clay. Within each model would be a metal armature allowing the model to be easily moved. Certain models would include leavers in the face, for ease of movement. He even used real life crab shell in Mysterious Island and placed a metal armature inside it.
Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen is a special effects legend who has worked on a large number of productions including Mighty Joe Young, Clash of the Titans and Jason and the Argonauts. Much of his work involved making large dimensional model and busts from a variety of rubber, sponge rubber and clay. Within each model would be a metal armature allowing the model to be easily moved. Certain models would include leavers in the face, for ease of movement. He even used real life crab shell in Mysterious Island and placed a metal armature inside it.
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