Super Invincible Dog: Bread and Death
To this day, countless stop-motion animations still play an important role in this era. Fantastic, warm, and meaningful masterpieces are still emerging. People can find their own resonance in different styles of stop-motion animation according to their own artistic preferences.
PES Fresh Guacamole, 2012
With its unique interpretation, stop-motion animation has created a large number of characters with rich personalities and great characteristics.
Classic clay world
"Chicken Run" is probably the "enlightenment" of clay animation, this witty and humorous animation has a tight rhythm, and there are some deep meanings worth playing.
"Chicken Run"
The so-called "man-made knife trick, I am for fish meat", a group of chickens in the farm are not willing to become human plate food - chicken pie. So they used their collective wisdom to escape, and finally broke through the obstacles.
Clay animation is a type of stop-motion animation, and clay is the main material in the production of characters. Framed animation is created by shooting the subject frame by frame and then screening it continuously. This particular form gives it the possibility to create a variety of bizarre characters detached from reality.
Script of the scene design of "Submarine Sandwich"
The preparation process for a clay animation also takes several twists and turns, and can involve many aspects. The character setting is first determined by the script creativity, and then through the production of large-scale characters, scenes, and props, it is necessary to usher in the shooting link of frame-by-frame decoration. In the end, the entire film is produced by composing all the shooting material.
The filming process of "Submarine Sandwich"
The chicken character in Chicken Run is so vivid. The reason for this is the careful carving of each production link by the creators.
For the filming of "Chicken Run", the creators set up a three-dimensional stereoscopic set of about 18 meters long. The chicks are made of a special clay that takes the entire day to model a chick, so detailed that even the feathers on the chicks are carefully depicted by hand.
A scene in the filming of "Ghost Mother"
And a few of the animation works that we are familiar with, such as "Chicken Run", "Shaun the Sheep", and "Super Invincible Dog", are all conscience works produced by Aardman Animation.
Stills from Shaun the Sheep
From 1989 to the present, Super Invincible Dog has launched numerous series, which mainly include five short films, a feature film and two TV series.
Directed by Nick Parker.
Wallace was always a little "off the line", and the intelligent Agao could not speak, and could only express what he thought and communicate with people through changes in facial expressions and different body language.
The life of one man and one dog is always a joke. The film is full of all kinds of British humor, many nonsensical plots, coupled with Agao's ubiquitous cuteness, so that the entire series is enduring because of the interesting plot.
Aardman has always insisted on handmade clay. Before the emergence of "rising star" Laika Entertainment, Adman was the world's largest stop-motion animation company at the time.
Ghost Mother
Psychic Boy Norman
"Box Monster"
The form of stop-motion animation seems to be favored by talented ghost horse artists.
In 2014, American film director and screenwriter Wes Anderson was nominated for nine awards at the 87th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, for his work "The Grand Budapest Hotel".
Wes Anderson
This extremely talented artist is involved in every aspect of the film's production in great detail. In addition to "Crossing Darjeeling" and "Moonrise Kingdom", he also has a stop-motion animation work "The Great Fox Daddy" around the theme of growth, family and responsibility.
The Great Fox Daddy
Wes's feature-length animation, adapted from Ronald Dahl's storybook of the same name. The film is in-depth and simple, and in terms of content, it not only has the childish interest of attracting children, but also has no lack of philosophical discussions about the depths. His artistic prowess in detail is unquestionable.
A very different masterpiece of the creator
In these different styles of stop-motion animation, in addition to the mainstream works that people know, there are also some other masterpieces that are silently born, and the creators of these works are obsessed with expressing various themes of animation.
PES has set the most astonishing number of stop-motion animation browsing records, and his animation works have been viewed nearly 240 million times on the platform of foreign video site YouTube alone.
PES, Western Pasta, 2008
《KaBoom！ "The Game Is Over", "Human Skateboarding", "Western Pasta" and "Fresh Guacamole" are all wonderful short films by PES.
PES appeared in his work Submarine Sandwich
WITH ITS extraordinary ability to subtly transform familiar objects into another form, making us feel full of fun while being stunned.
The production process of the "ham slice" in "Submarine Sandwich"
The unknown creator has now gained global recognition through his excellent work and has won many awards. In 2013, the Academy Awards nominated "Fresh Guacamole," the shortest-running film ever nominated for the Academy Awards.
Submarine Sandwich, 2014
In a semi-autobiographical way, the director tells the story of two pen pals who exchange letters and accompany each other for more than 20 years.
Mary and Marx
Both protagonists are troubled by intractable problems on the spiritual level, but lonely, they are surprised to find that letters give each other a bridge to communicate. Since then, they have communicated their thoughts in the form of letters, and found solace in the vast universe.
Marx is recording his own thoughts
Stop-motion animation needs to be completed by a large number of manual productions in the early stage of the production of various props, which also indirectly lays a simple and original artistic tone for this art form.
Staff adjustments
The decoration of the street scene of "Mary and Marx"
Stop motion animation is like a slow-moving wise man, with a gentle personality, sometimes grotesque and occasionally out of tune. It does not have a flawless posture, but it often inadvertently plucks our heartstrings with just three words.
David's winter break program is in the process of being launched
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Children's interactive sensory art/whimsy
Suitable for: 4-6 years old
Training content: art toys, audiovisual sensory creation, stop motion animation.
A variety of fairy tales, surprise story scenes, let the children start to restore those wonderful plots one by one!
Teachers prepare a variety of media materials, and the elements of the storytelling scenes with the children are reorganized and redesigned, and our little scene designers are about to be born!