In this section I will be looking at how Nick Park has changed and shaped the the way we all look at stop motion animation. Nick Park is the creator of the famous Wallace and Gromit and his other work includes Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep and Creature Comforts.
Here are a few examples of his work:
Nick Park started his career in animation at Aardman in 1985 were he joined as a animator, he started work on commercial products by making adverts for them. From this he then went on to produce and complete 'A Grand Day Out' with his most famous piece of work Wallace and Gromit.
Nick's stop motion techniques consists of him moving a small bit of the clay model then taking a photo and then moving another small bit and taking a photo again, and in total by building up these photos and playing them back at speed you get a moving picture. In the film Chicken Run there is 24 frames per second and more than 100,000 frames in the whole movie. 1 minute of film is completed every week and for one single shot of a scene there is one week to prepare the shot with sets and characters and lights and three weeks to shoot the scene.
In total it took Nick Park three years of animation to get Chicken Run to its final product.
Thing that helps Nick Park create movement and more of a sense of realism from his characters is that Nick aims to get close up shots of the characters faces in order to help the viewer think about what the character is thinking or what their facial expression is trying to give.
Nick has developed his stop motion techniques throughout the the course of his career and one way his has done is this by keeping the lighting perfect for every shot, that is taken while shooting an animation there is 180 people working on lighting for each production that Nick has ever done. This shows that he is developing the way the stop motion constancy is done as he wants every shot to be the same each time, Other wise the whole scene could be ruined with a light missing on not being there.
All in all i think that the way Nick Park does his style of animation is out of this world as i think focusing on the face of the clay character helps the viewer bring the character to life in their head which this type of animation is all about. Using this technique defiantly changes the way animation has come along from normal standard images to close up's of characters faces showing emotions and feelings.
Here are a few examples of his work:
Nick Park started his career in animation at Aardman in 1985 were he joined as a animator, he started work on commercial products by making adverts for them. From this he then went on to produce and complete 'A Grand Day Out' with his most famous piece of work Wallace and Gromit.
Nick's stop motion techniques consists of him moving a small bit of the clay model then taking a photo and then moving another small bit and taking a photo again, and in total by building up these photos and playing them back at speed you get a moving picture. In the film Chicken Run there is 24 frames per second and more than 100,000 frames in the whole movie. 1 minute of film is completed every week and for one single shot of a scene there is one week to prepare the shot with sets and characters and lights and three weeks to shoot the scene.
In total it took Nick Park three years of animation to get Chicken Run to its final product.
Thing that helps Nick Park create movement and more of a sense of realism from his characters is that Nick aims to get close up shots of the characters faces in order to help the viewer think about what the character is thinking or what their facial expression is trying to give.
Nick has developed his stop motion techniques throughout the the course of his career and one way his has done is this by keeping the lighting perfect for every shot, that is taken while shooting an animation there is 180 people working on lighting for each production that Nick has ever done. This shows that he is developing the way the stop motion constancy is done as he wants every shot to be the same each time, Other wise the whole scene could be ruined with a light missing on not being there.
All in all i think that the way Nick Park does his style of animation is out of this world as i think focusing on the face of the clay character helps the viewer bring the character to life in their head which this type of animation is all about. Using this technique defiantly changes the way animation has come along from normal standard images to close up's of characters faces showing emotions and feelings.
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