It had such a profound affect on me as a 9-year-old that it made me want to make films. The next day I got my parents' Super 8 movie camera and started to do stop-motion animation with a clay dinosaur.
Quotes about stop-motion (10 Quotes)
When computer animation came in, they thought it would be the death of 3-D stop-motion, but it has a particular life of its own. It's hand-crafted and has a spontaneity. It can feel more alive. The hand of the individual is right there. Sometimes, you even see the thumbprints in the clay.
What people like about stop-motion animation is that it's real. It's like a magic trick, taking real things, real sets, and making them come to life with movement.
We could have done the 'Were-Rabbit' in CGI. But we chose not to because I find with traditional stop-motion techniques and clay there is a certain magic that happens whenever the frame is hand-manipulated. I just love clay it's an expression.
They moved him with animation, you know, stop-motion. And then they had a huge rubber arm with a steel cable in side large enough to hold me.
We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.
That's pretty large compared to other stop-motion puppets, ... The Nightmare Before Christmas.
It can only be a good thing from my point of view. With all the kind of movement toward computer animation and as great as many of those films are, there's more people who have been employed in stop-motion animation in the last year than ever before.
Children seem to respond to stop-motion more than other animation,
I always laugh when I hear that a form of animation is dying. They've been saying for years that stop-motion is dead. But a few of us are still around.