Animation World Magazine, issue 2.11, February 1998, Motion Capture & Stop Motion ...

The Stop Motion Filmgraphy by Neil Pettigrew ...

Stop-Motion Photography A still from Willis O'Brien's 1916 film, The Missing Link. Stop-motion (also referred to as stop-action) photography was one of the first special effects techniques ever invented. It is a form of animation and allows otherwise lifeless objects to move and change. Much of the early use of stop-motion in the cinema was to make models of dinosaurs apparently gallop by ...

Ball Joints for Stop-Motion figures Many people on the animation forums have asked how to build armatures for stop-motion figures... Well, here's my suggestion, cheap and easy: Go to an electronics store, or a hardware store selling hobbyist tools, and buy a few of the small gadgets sometimes called miniature vise grips or helping hands . They are used when soldering electronic components ...