Time Line

Claymation
It first appeared around 1908. It is the one people most associate with stop-motion animation. These films became more popular in 1897 because an art teacher invented plasticine, which is a malleable non-drying clay and it will hold the shape well. Filmmakers soon found themselves using claymation instead of moving objects around. Animators started to put plasticine on top of wire-armature skeletons, which helps the models to move around with more ease. This style of claymation is used to make Wallace and Gromit. the rise in popularity of claymation accelerated during the late 70's. Vinton and Aardman studios produced his short claymation films during the 1980's which brought us the worlds first stop-motion animated film in Will Vinton's adventure of Mark Twain. In the 1980's Wallace and Gormit also made an appearance for the first time. Although they mainly starred in a series of shorts. They finally debuted their first feature film called Curse of the Were Rabbit in 2005. Although it was pre-dated by Chicken Run in 2000 as Aardman and Dreamworks' first feature-length claymation film.


Pixilation
Is a live-action form of motion s which uses people being posed frame by frame instead of inaminate objects or drawings. The earliest example known is from 1911 which was in the short film called Jabard cannot see the woman working its a strange form of stop-motion animation because it uses people so it looked like they were flying or levitating. filmmaker Mike Jittlov obsessed with this technique he created a pixilation called the Wizard of Speed and Time this was from a short film he made by Mike Jittlov, an animator who previously worked for walt disney company and made a short film called Mouse Mania featuring object animation, In 1979, Jittlov Directed a short film called The Wizard of Speed and Time for disney's major effects television special. Ten years later Jittlov directed a feature film version of the wizard.


Object Animation
The earliest form of stop-motion animation is object manipulation which involves taking photographs of an object and moving it a tiny bit then take another photograph. Its quite time-consuming , but its one of the easiest forms of stop-motion and quickly became complex when using multiple objects, trying to create unique paths and eveents for each different object. The first example of object manipulation and stop-motion animation was a short film by Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton in 1898 called the Humpty Dumpty Circus this film has been considered lost and only infomation exists today. They both used Blacton's son's circus toys, and photographed them moving around frame by frame. the next surviving example was directed by Edwin S. Porter called Fun in a Bakery Shop, and in 1902 it was released by Thomas A. Edison. This is a mixture of object manipulation and stop-action photography, where filming halted and something is changed in the shot before filming resumes. the camera would stop, actors would "freeze" and filming would resume.


Puppet Animation
Not long after object animation filmmakers started experimenting using different forms of objects that are easier to manipulate. Puppets were one solution, which led to the popular rise of stop-motion animation known as puppet animation. Puppets were used because there easier for animators to manipulate an personify, without this we wouldn't have filmmmakers like Willis O'Brien, Ray Harryhausen, Jan Svankmjer, The Brothers Quay. A good example of a good puppet animation is street of crocodiles by the brothers quay. Both stop-motion and puppet animation gave rise to special effects artist and filmmaker Willis O'Brien who helped pioneer special effects in filmmaking by utilizing stop-motion animation. He started with models made out of clay for his short film but then he started to make full armature skeletons and rubber skin and fur over them. This is how he made the stop-motion shots of king kong on top of the Empire state building. O'Briens work has inspired filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Will Vinton, Peter Jackson. Tim Burton and more.