Animation 04 STOP MOTION

Animation is a great way of telling a story. This piece of text explains exactly what interests me about stop-motion animation. Taken from the Introduction on page 8 written by Barry Purves who is himself an animator.

I love the trick of seeing a solid object move in real space, watching the unexpected ways the light interacts over the materials. I love an object being given an apparent life. I love the trick.There is something shamanistic about it, as well as something that connects immediately to childhood games and, perhaps, to darker fantasies. The very physicality of stop-motion makes all these accessible.