StopMotion workshop Research Martin Eschoyez

Me | MartínEschoyez Stop Motion workshop | Bert Brusselmans Research 1 - List of films that are made in stop motion technique: Film The Adventures of Prince Achmed Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed The Tale of the Fox Le Roman de Renard The Seven Ravens Die sieben Raben The Crab with the Golden Claws The Czech Year aka. A Treasury of Fairy-tales Spalicek The Emperor's Nightingale Císařův slavík Adventures of Esparadrapo Aventuras de Esparadrapo Prince Bayaya Bajaja The Treasure of Bird Island Poklad Ptacího ostrova Old Czech Legends Staré pověsti české Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy aka. Hansel and Gretel Beloved Beauty Краса ненаглядная (Krasa nenaglyadnaya) A Midsummer Night's Dream Sen noci svatojánské Heaven and Earth Magic Country Date Type Germany July 1926 cutout France/Germany 10 April 1937 puppet Germany 2 December 1937 puppet Belgium 11 January 1947 puppet Czechoslovakia 1947 puppet Czechoslovakia 15 April 1949 puppet Spain 26 December 1947 puppet Czechoslovakia 11 October 1950 puppet Czechoslovakia 22 February 1953 cut-out Czechoslovakia 11 September 1953 puppet USA 10 October 1954 puppet USSR 1958 puppet Czechoslovakia 1959 puppet USA 1962 cut-out Israel 1962 puppet USA 6 December 1964 puppet Joseph the Dreamer aka. Joseph Sold By His Brothers ‫( בעלהחלומות‬Ba'al Hahalomot) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Me | MartínEschoyez Stop Motion workshop | Bert Brusselmans Lefty USSR 1964 cut-out USA/Japan 23 June 1965 puppet USSR 1966 cut-out/puppet Adam 2 West Germany 1968 cut-out Mad Monster Party? USA 8 March 1969 puppet Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town USA/Japan 14 December 1970 puppet France December 1970 puppet USA 1971 puppet USA 21 February 1972 puppet USA 10 December 1974 puppet Czechoslovakia 1974 cut-out Flåklypa Grand Prix Norway 28 August 1975 puppet Rudolph's Shiny New Year USA 10 December 1976 puppet The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town USA 6 April 1977 puppet USSR 1977 puppet 1977 cut-out Левша (Levsha) Willie McBean & His Magic Machine Go There, Don't Know Where Поди туда, не знаю куда (Podi tuda, nye znayu kuda) Dougal and the Blue Cat Pollux et le chat bleu Here Comes Peter Cottontail The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye: The Emperor's New Clothes The Year Without a Santa Claus Tales of 1001 Nights aka. Sindbad Pohádky tisíce a jedné noci The Holiday of Disobedience Праздник непослушания (Prazdnik neposlushaniya) Krabat - The Sorcerer's Apprentice Čarodějův učeň - Czechoslovakia Krabat - West Germany Czechoslovakia/W est Germany Rime of the Ancient Mariner USA) 1977 cut-out Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July USA 1 July 1980 puppet Jack Frost USA 13 December 1979 puppet Nutcracker Fantasy USA/Japan 1979 puppet Ubu et la grande gidouille France 1979 cut-out Pinocchio's Christmas USA 3 December 1980 puppet Me | MartínEschoyez Stop Motion workshop | Bert Brusselmans The Tale of John and Marie Czechoslovakia/U Pohádka o Honzíkovi a Marence SSR 1980 cut-out Japan 7 October 1981 puppet Czechoslovakia 1981 puppet East Germany 9 April 1982 puppet France/Poland 1982 puppet Hungary 1982 puppet The Wind in the Willows UK 27 December 1983 puppet The Little Witch Czechoslovakia/W Mala carodejnice est Germany 1983 cut-out USA March 1985 puppet (clay) USA 17 December 1985 puppet 1985 cut-out Rennyo and His Mother (Rennyo to sono haha) The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, the Sailor from York Dobrodruzství Robinsona Crusoe, námorníka z Yorku The Flying Windmill Die Fliegende Windmühle Chronopolis The Adventures of Sam the Squirrel Misi mókus kalandjai The Adventures of Mark Twain aka. Comet Quest The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus Odyssea The Pied Piper of Hamelin Krysař Sophie's Place Long live Servatius! Éljen Szervác! The Amazing Mr. Bickford My Favourite Time Любимое мое время (Lyubimoye moyo vremya) Czechoslovakia/E ast Germany puppet (wood, Czechoslovakia 1985 USA 1986 cut-out Hungary 1986 puppet USA 1987 clay USSR 1987 cel/cut-out USSR 1988 mixed East Germany 1989 puppet 3D & 2D) The Cat Who Walked by Herself Кошка, которая гуляла сама по себе (Koshka, kotoraya gulyala sama po sebe) The Trace Leads to the Silver Lake Die Spur führt zum Silbersee Me | MartínEschoyez Stop Motion workshop | Bert Brusselmans The Flying Sneaker aka. The Butterflies Time Czechoslovakia/C 1990 puppet UK 1990 puppet USSR 1990 mixed Школа изящных искусств (Shkola izyashchnykh USSR 1990 mixed Russia 1992 cut-out The Nightmare Before Christmas USA 9 October 1993 puppet The Return of Captain Sinbad USA 1993 puppet Gumby: The Movie USA 1 December 1995 puppet (clay) James and the Giant Peach USA 12 April 1996 puppet Russia 1996 puppet/cut-out Russia 1998 puppet Russia/UK 31 March 2000 puppet UK/USA 21 June 2000 puppet (clay) Denmark 27 November 2000 puppet Optimus Mundus Russia 3 January 2000 mixed Jan Werich's Fimfárum Czech Republic 27 May 2002 puppet Japan 19 June 2003 puppet/cut-out The Legend of the Sky Kingdom Zimbabwe October 2003 puppet Davey and Goliath's Snowboard Christmas USA December 2004 puppet Among the Thorns Sweden 1 February 2005 puppet Motýlí cas anada The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship The School of Fine Arts. The Return Школа изящных искусств. Возвращение (Shkola izyashchnykh iskusstv. Vozvrashcheniye) The School of Fine Arts iskusstv) Mitki-Mayer Митьки никого не хотят победить или Митькимайер (Mitki nikovo ne khotyat pobedit ili Mitkimayer) Kings and Cabbage Короли и капуста (Koroli i kapusta) The Magic Pipe Волшебная свирель (Volshebnaya Svirel) The Miracle Maker Чудотворец (Chudotvorets) Chicken Run Prop and Berta Prop og Berta Winter Days (Fuyu no hi) Me | MartínEschoyez Stop Motion workshop | Bert Brusselmans Bland tistlar The Book of the Dead Japan 8 July 2005 puppet UK/USA 4 September 2005 puppet (clay) Corpse Bride UK/USA 7 September 2005 puppet Klay World: Off the Table USA 15 October 2005 puppet (clay) Denmark/Latvia 28 October 2005 puppet Disaster! USA 4 November 2005 puppet Live Freaky! Die Freaky! USA 17 January 2006 puppet Blood Tea and Red String USA 2 February 2006 puppet Fimfárum 2 Czech Republic 23 February 2006 puppet USA 14 November 2006 puppet (clay) Sweden 19 November 2006 puppet Davie & Golimyr USA 2006 puppet We Are the Strange USA 19 January 2007 puppet/CGI Czech Republic 25 January 2007 puppet 11 June 2007 puppet/CGI 19 October 2007 puppet (clay) (Shisha no sho) Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the WereRabbit The Three Musketeers Tr īs musketieri Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen Desmond & the Swamp Barbarian Trap Desmond & träskpatraskfällan One Night in One City Jedné noci v jednom městě Max & Co Tengers Belgium/France/S witzerland/UK South Africa Stop Motion workshop | Bert Brusselmans Me | MartínEschoyez 2 – Ten films in which stop motion was used as special effect: ● RoboCop, USA, 1987, July 17 (Phil Tippett) ● Krull, UK, 1983, July 29. ● Ghostbusters, USA, 1984, June 8. ● Clash of the Titans, USA, 1981, June 12 (Ray Harryhausen) ● Dragonslayer, USA 1981, June 26. ● The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, USA 1974, April 5 (Ray Harryhausen) ● Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, USA, 1977, Aug 12 (Ray Harryhausen) ● Jack the Giant Killer, USA, 1962, June 13 (Tim Barr) ● The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, USA, 1962, Aug 7 (George Pál) ● The Lost World, USA, 1925, February 2 (Willis O'Brien) ● King Kong, USA, 1933, March 2 (Willis O'Brien) ● The Night Before Christmas (Noch pered Rozhdestvom), Russian Empire, 1913 (Ladislas Starevich) Stop Motion workshop | Bert Brusselmans Me | MartínEschoyez Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger is a 1977 fantasy film, the final installment of Ray Harryhausen's "Sinbad trilogy" (the others being The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad) and the penultimate movie in which Harryhausen would use the stop-motion technique he had pioneered since the late 1940s. The movie was directed by Sam Wanamaker and cost 7 million dollars to make[citation needed], making it the costliest of the Sinbad series. The live action was filmed in Spain, Malta, and Jordan (at the tombs of ancient Petra) between June and October of 1975, with Harryhausen's stop-motion animation work lasting from October 1975 up to March 1977. Some notes about the production: • Ray Harryhausen visited London Zoo and spent hours observing the baboons and tigers, making sketches and filming them on 8mm. • The exterior of Zenobia's palace was a 16-inch model matted into the Almeria coastline, with the actors standing on the rocks. • Sinbad's ship is the same one used in the previous Sinbad film, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. In fact, there is a brief sequence in the film in which the figurehead from the previous film, that was brought to life and attacked Sinbad's crew, is clearly visible. • The stop motion model of the Troglodyte, was later dismantled, so that the armature could be used to create Calibos in Clash of the Titans. • A fourth film, Sinbad's Voyage to Mars, was written and locations were scouted, but the film was never made. It had Sinbad hitch a trip to Mars on a jewelled flying saucer and was loosely inspired by the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Stop Motion workshop | Bert Brusselmans Me | MartínEschoyez 3 – Inventions that could produce an illusion of moving images before the cinema was invented: Thaumatrope Is a toy that was popular in Victorian times. A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to combine into a single image due to persistence of vision. The invention of the thaumatrope is usually credited to John Ayrton Paris, an English doctor, who used one to demonstrate persistence of vision to the Royal College of Physicians in London in 1824. He based his invention on ideas of the astronomer John Herschel and the geologist William Henry Fitton, and some sources attribute the actual invention to Fitton rather than Paris. Others claim that Charles Babbage was the inventor. Examples of common thaumatrope pictures include a bare tree on one side of the disk, and its leaves on the other, or a bird on one side and a cage on the other. They often also included riddles or short poems, with one line on each side. Thaumatropes were one of a number of simple, mechanical optical toys that used persistence of vision. They are recognised as important antecedents of cinematography and in particular of animation. The coined name translates roughly as "wonder turner" in modern Greek. Zoetrope Is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures. It consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. Beneath the slits on the inner surface of the cylinder is a band which has either individual frames from a video/film or images from a set of sequenced drawings or photographs. As the cylinder spins the user looks through the slits at the pictures on the opposite side of the cylinder's interior. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together so that the user sees a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, the equivalent of a motion picture. Cylindrical zoetropes have the property of Stop Motion workshop | Bert Brusselmans Me | MartínEschoyez causing the images to appear thinner than their actual sizes when viewed in motion through the slits. The earliest elementary zoetrope was created in China around 180 AD by the prolific inventor Ting Huan. Driven by convection Ting Huan's device hung over a lamp. The rising air turned vanes at the top from which were hung translucent paper or mica panels. Pictures painted on the panels would appear to move if the device is spun at the right speed. The first European zoetrope was invented independently in 1834 by William Horner who called it a "daedalum" or "daedatelum". Horner based his device on the Phenakistiscope built in 1831 by Joseph Plateau. A device similar to Horners' was described by John Bate in The Mysteries of Nature and Art in 1634. The Praxinoscope was an improvement on the zoetrope that became popular toward the end of the nineteenth century. It was an animation device, invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors, placed so that the reflections of the pictures appeared more or less stationary in position as the wheel turned. Someone looking in the mirrors would therefore see a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, with a brighter and less distorted picture than the zoetrope offered. In 1889 Reynaud developed the Théâtre Optique, an improved version capable of projecting images on a screen from a longer roll of pictures. This allowed him to show hand-drawn animated cartoons to larger audiences, but it was soon eclipsed in popularity by the photographic film projector of the Lumière brothers. A 20th century adaptation of the praxinoscope were Red Raven Magic Mirror and records. The mirror surfaced carousel sits on a spindle in the center of a record player. When the special 78 rpm picture records are played the images printed around the paper label animate. The word "praxinoscope" comes from Greek roots meaning "action viewer". Stop Motion workshop | Bert Brusselmans Me | MartínEschoyez F lip book A Flip book (sometimes, especially in British English, flick book) is a book with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page to the next, so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change. Flip books are often illustrated books for children, but may also be geared towards adults and employ a series of photographs rather than drawings. Flip books are not always separate books, but may appear as an added feature in ordinary books or magazines, often in the page corners. Software packages and websites are also available that convert digital video files into custom-made flip books. This, of course, is the way frame by frame animation is accomplished in movie cartoons. The viewing mechanism can be as simple as your thumb or as complex as the Kinora and Mutoscope shown at the right. Magic Lantern The magic lantern was the forerunner of both the projected image and the moving picture. Scholarship suggests that it was invented in the 17th century, by Athanasius Kircher. From then until the early 20th century it was a vehicle for both entertainment and education. Slides to project in magic lanterns have been made in several forms: hand painted, lithographed, printed outlines with hand coloring, and photographic. They have been produced in many sizes and formats, including round, to fit lanterns of different sizes and styles. From the 19th through the early decades of the 20th century larger slide projectors were used for theatre, church, school, and fraternal organizations as well as professional showmen to give illustrated lectures. There are "slip slides" where two panes of glass carry two different frames of an animation. When the slide is projected one of the the glass layers can be pushed in and out to create the appearance of movement. We have other slides that use a crack or leaver to create movement. Stop Motion workshop | Bert Brusselmans Bibliography: Cracking Animation – Peter Lord & Brian Sibley The Illusion of Life – Frank Thomas & Ollie Johnston www.stopmotionanimation.com Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre www.keithlango.com Enciclopedia de las técnicas de animación Arte y Técnica de la Animación – Rodolfo Sáenz Valiente Breve Historia del dibujo animado en la Argentina – Raúl Manrupe Me | MartínEschoyez