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animation made by murdering time, one photograph at a time.
means a filmmaking technique where physical objects are moved in tiny increments and photographed frame by frame to fake motion.
from traces to 1890s trick films, when melies and others realized stopping the camera to rearrange objects between frames could make things vanish, morph, or crawl; puppet animators like ladislas starevich then proved dead bugs and clay could act better than most humans.
frame math24 photos fake one second of movement
patience taxa minute of footage can take weeks
clay origingumby predates claymation by three decades
oscar streaklaika earns a nomination nearly every film
for instance
wallace and gromit — aardman's clay duo, running since 1989
king kong 1933 — willis o'brien's ape scaled empire state building
nightmare before christmas — tim burton's 1993 puppet musical, still stop motion's poster child