Thursday, 20 November 2014

Animators

Artist 1: Ladislas Starevich
Ladislas Starevich was a Russian stop motion animator who is famous for inventing the very first "stop-motion" movie The Beautiful Lukanida in 1912 which he created with puppets. He created multiple other stop-motion movies in which he liked to use small animals such as insects for his protagonists.


Artist 2: Tim Burton/Warner Bros. Animation
Tim Burton is a very successful stop motion movie animator who has created various famous stop motion animation films such as The Corpse Bride, The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. Warner Bros. Animation worked with Tim Burton to help create his film by filming the actual animation parts by moving and changing the figures and taking an image of each frame.

Artist 3: DisneyDisney are a very famous multi-mass media corporation famous for their theme park attraction Disney Land as well as their very successful movies, including some stop motion animation movies. The first one they made was a short film called Noah's Ark which they made with the use of small puppets and released in 1959.

Artist 4: Henry Selick
Henry Selick is another famous movie director who has made a lot of movies involving stop motion animation including the very successful movie Coraline. He uses a very similar style of changing and posing hand made models and taking an image of each frame.

Artist 5: Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen was a highly acclaimed visual effects animator who created his own form of stop motion animation which he called "Dynamation". Some of his most famous work are his involvement in many films such as Jason and the Argonauts and Clash Of The Titans. His work went on to inspire many movie directors including John Lasseter and Tim Burton.

Artist 6: Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson is a film writer and screenwriter who has used stop motion animation in some of his films, mainly Fantastic Mr Fox. He uses very similar styles to Warner Bros. Animation and Henry Selick but used real life components into the film such as using real sand.

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