Here is the movie trailer to Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable’s movie, ‘The Boxtrolls’ (YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfm4uPESCoI).
If the trailer is any indication of what is to come, the film ‘Boxtrolls’ will take stop motion animation to a new level of artistry. Set for a September 2014 release the trailer is giving its audience a first glimpse of the countless hours, even years, which have been dedicated to the production of this film. ‘BoxTrolls’ takes place in a Victorian-era town and has visually thrown itself into this bygone era while using the stop-motion technique to tell their story. At the beginning of the trailer you can see how daunting the creation of the clay characters and scenery are. The characters begin to come to life while moving towards the end of the trailer when they show the full stop-motion usage of the clay figures in their background.
For more than hundred years stop motion has been around in one form or another. At a steady rate of speed a series of frames have been shot with each one being slightly different that the next one. The human eye perceives this as being an unbroken action and the brain seamlessly stiches the frames together and it appears like a moving image. The object is moved in small increments between independently photographed frames, creating the illusion of connection when the series of frames is played as a nonstop sequence. In its earliest form of stop-motion animation was objective manipulation. The stop-motion technique was created to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton were the first people to use the idea of a stop-motion film. In 1897 they created The Humpty Dumpty Circus, a film wher...
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...ngs. Nothing has been left to out, down to the smallest detail. The one thing that has not changed over the years, no shortcut to producing a film. Modern day artists continue to push the envelope of a medium but it still requires hours of tedious work before realizing the final product.
The stop-motion technique has come along ways and is constantly improving. Although Hollywood has a love affair with computers and CGI, stop-motion is alive and well. It is an art form, to its very core, that can be labeled as a true labor of love because of the sheer amount hard work, perseverance, and detail that goes into it.
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