Stop Motion: Passion, Process and Performance

 

 

Production

 

 

The lovers from Screen Play never had the close-up they deserved.

Trying to get a sense of the whole sequence is made difficult by the practicalities of working. Early in the morning you are fresh and it is common to see animators (and here I hold my hand up) putting masses of activity into a shot, and then as the day wears on, it gets hotter under the lights, you realise that the shot may not get finished, and gradually the action becomes just about the central character. When played back the shot is busy at the start and ...