The main disadvantage of stop motion animation is that it has a relatively low degree of freedom.

As we all know, the closer you get to the form of consciousness, the freer you are, and the closer you get to matter, the less free you are, and the more you are conditioned by various objective laws.

From this point of view, the three main forms of animation production are ranked in terms of freedom: flat animation> 3D animation> stop motion animation.

Stop-motion animation is the least free.

But in the same way, stop motion animation also has considerable advantages that other animations do not have or rarely have, the most significant advantage is the low threshold for production personnel, and the other is that the investment cost is relatively low. The reason for the low investment is that the production threshold is relatively much lower than that of the other two animation production methods, and even many practitioners do not need strong professional knowledge to start production directly.

In terms of talent, the production staff of a small and medium-sized stop-motion animation production team can be divided into several parts in total.

First of all, the screenwriting, design, and storyboard drawing in the early stage, which require professional personnel. The second is the production part. The production part can be divided into four parts: puppet making, scenery making, model reproduction, and coloring, of which only one or two hands in each group need to be checked before it can be operated. Finally, there is the filming part. The action engineer in the shooting part can be said to be the fastest training speed and the fastest growth among the three mainstream animation forms today, generally about half a year of training can be competent for most of the medium and low difficulty shots, and two to three years can completely grow into a qualified stop-motion animation action engineer.

In terms of production materials, almost all the production materials of stop motion animation can come from life, such as tools such as screws, wrenches, pliers, knives, etc., materials such as styrofoam, aluminum wire, medical eraser, various fabrics, etc., and even flowers and plants collected from outings, useless garbage in life, gadgets found in the second-hand market, etc. For example, in the upcoming 2009 "Caroline", there is a little girl walking out of the roadside flowers competing to open, and the flowers in the scene are made of plastic cleaning balls in the toilet. These things are generally quite inexpensive and readily available.

In terms of shooting, stop motion animation requires only a camera mount, a camera, a computer, and a data cable connected to the computer. Of course, big productions such as "Nightmare Before Christmas", "Zombie Bride", "Caroline", etc., will use camera moving tracks and professional lighting will increase some costs, but these costs are the same as other film and television production investment, and will not be higher than other film and television forms.

Overall, stop-motion animation is undoubtedly a very good form of animation that has more advantages than disadvantages.

But unfortunately, stop-motion animation is too niche after all.

In the entire film industry, there are so many kinds of films that are relatively niche, first of all, animated films, although animated films have a wide audience, but that is only theoretical. Whether at home or abroad, animated films are often synonymous with young age, of course, Disney's animation has many adult fans, and it doesn't mean that animated movies are necessarily for children, but in the final analysis, compared with movies of all ages, the audience of animated films is undoubtedly much smaller.

Then there are literary movies, which may have a deep connotation, but most audiences are reluctant to watch this kind of movie, which can be compared from the box office, and the box office of literary and artistic movies is usually not good. Of course, people don't necessarily make this kind of movie for the box office, and while this kind of movie doesn't work at the box office, it is generally the majority of the awards, and the focus is basically different.

Movies such as musicals can also be regarded as niche movies, in short, compared with movies that the public generally likes, the above movies can be called niche.

Animated movies are relatively better, after all, even if they are young, at least they can barely be regarded as all-age.

So in the internal classification of animated films, stop-motion animation is really a niche among the niches.

There are also those who can win awards, and there are also those who have a good box office, but it takes a few years to release one, so if you consider career development, even if Zhou Fangyuan supports Yang Mingjue to do animated movies, he definitely does not recommend Yang Mingjue to do stop-motion animation, which consumes a lot of energy and time, but the prospects are not impressive.

Fortunately, Disney has not developed much in stop-motion animation now, or in other words, Disney has not really developed in stop-motion animation from the beginning, which is one of the reasons why Zhou Fangyuan is relieved to send Yang Mingjue out.

Let her go to Disney, follow the Disney production team, start from the most basic parts bit by bit, and understand how a mature movie animation is made.

From the script to the preparation, from the painting to the dubbing, from the props to the director, Yang Mingjue still has a lot to learn.

It would be unrealistic not for her to win a movie completely by herself, but as a director, you must know the entire process of film production. Disney can be proud of the global animated film industry, they have their own tricks, Yang Mingjue wants to learn completely from the teacher, but learn as much as she can, at least it will help her in the future. Or, she can also stay at Disney and stay in Hollywood, which is the biggest value of Zhou Fangyuan's "channel" at present. As a shareholder of a large company, isn't it easy to put a few people into the company's production team?

As long as you can gain a foothold in the production team and participate in a few more works, you will slowly be able to have a certain reputation in the circle. Then try to lead the team to make a movie by yourself, as long as you can achieve a certain degree of success, even if you really stand on your feet, there is capital support behind you, make a few more movies, and slowly, you will completely blend into the circle of Hollywood directors or producers.

Compared with outsiders squeezing in, such slow penetration is actually more effective. Of course, this itself also has Yang Mingjue's own will in it, she is a more ambitious girl, when Zhou Fangyuan said that he could provide her with a way to go to Hollywood, she chose to agree as soon as possible. The hesitant part is only what to do in Hollywood, and where to start first...... But for going to Hollywood, Yang Mingjue didn't have any intention of refusing or rejecting at all, and she accepted all this very smoothly.

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sent Yang Mingjue away, the work visa is very easy to handle, and Disney will send an invitation to do everything.

After sending Yang Mingjue away, Zhou Fangyuan asked people to collect some stop-motion animation materials. But don't get me wrong, he's not trying to make stop-motion animation, he's just trying to get a little bit of a look.

After all, this is also a branch of the film field,Well,If it is made into a serial,TV animation field can also be involved,A large part of the funds and resources of the Yuanfang Group are now beginning to tilt towards the entertainment industry,The country's future development policy will vigorously support the entertainment industry and the animation industry。 You can't say that stop-motion animation is an obsolete product, in fact, there are very few such things that exist that are truly outdated, and now they have no reputation, just a moment of silence, and as long as there are people who like this type of art, they have a chance to re-emerge.

So he thought about it for a while, and decided to learn some information about stop-motion animation, and if he had the opportunity, it wasn't that he couldn't push it behind his back.

Stop-motion animation is the process of shooting objects frame by frame and then showing them continuously, resulting in characters that seem to come to life or any bizarre character you can imagine. Stop-motion animation, as it is commonly referred to, is performed by clay puppets, puppets or mixed-media characters. The history of this form of animation is as long, if not older, than the history of hand-drawn animation in the traditional sense.

In 1907, at the New York studio of the Witteglaf Company in the United States, an unknown technician invented the "frame-by-frame shooting method" of shooting scenes with a camera, frame by frame. This fantastic approach quickly gained traction in some of the early films. For example, in "Haunted Hotel", a knife is automatically cutting sausages, as if being manipulated by an invisible hand. In 1907's The Wonderful Fountain Pen, a fountain pen writes automatically.

At that time, the Europeans did not know about this animation shooting technique, and they were amazed and called it the "rice country activity method".

Emil Cole of the French company Gaumont discovered this secret and made many cartoons.

Among them, "Little Faust" is the first puppet film to be shot frame by frame using puppet characters who can move their joints, which can be regarded as an early masterpiece of stop-motion animation. Later, when he lived in Paris in 1912, Starevich of Mao also made some puppet films, and the protagonists were mostly animals from fairy tales and fables, such as "The Dream of the Emperor of the Frog", "The House Mouse and the Vole", "The Yellow Warbler" and "The Queen of the Butterfly", etc., which greatly perfected the puppet film technique. He put a lot of effort into using all kinds of groundbreaking ingenuity and rich details in these films, but instead created the shortcomings of not being concise enough, drowning the plot in too cumbersome details. Many of the later puppet films in Eastern Europe had similar problems, though this was common in the slow-paced early animation.

In the early 20th century, stop-motion animation was somewhat dull in the light of increasingly perfect cartoon animation, and as several successful commercial cartoon characters in the United States swept the world, the definition of "cartoon" seems to have been monopolized by hand-drawn animation.

In the 20-30s, stop-motion animation had been wandering around a few small-scale productions and avant-garde experimental films, with no chance of getting close to the mainstream at all. Jean Bamlevé and René Bertrand used moving colored plaster casts to create an amazing film, Bluebeard, which combined the features of statues and puppets with dramatic moving lighting effects to open up a new direction in stop-motion puppet animation.

Czech animators, with official support, formed two schools of animation in Prague and Gottwald in 1945. The central figure of the "Wool Brothers" animation studio was the painter and sculptor Giri Turnka, who later became a world-renowned master of stop-motion animation. They made some unique puppet films, such as "Spring Toys", "Gifts" and so on. In the Czech Republic, puppet theatre is a traditional form of entertainment with a long history, and Turnka, who has performed puppets himself, specializes in puppet cartoons. Winner of the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival in 1948, "The Czech Year" depicts Czech folk life and revelry at traditional festivals, and the puppets used are expressionless and stiff, but the colors and lighting make up for it with excellent sets.

The two baroque feature films, "The Emperor's Nightingale" and "The Prince of Bayaya", are based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales and medieval legends, respectively.

Stop-motion animation really made its big splash on the big screen when it came to an immortal fantasy film, King Kong.

Superpioneer Wells O'Brien unleashed his genius imagination in this live-action and model-based film. As the giant King Kong fights the serpents and pterodactyls in a foggy valley, the audience seems to be confronted with the prehistoric monsters, and the scene of King Kong grabbing a toy-like plane on the top of the Empire State Building has become one of the most iconic scenes in the history of 20th-century cinema. Between 1907 and 1950, O'Brien made a series of monster films, such as The Lost World, Ape Joe Young, and Son of King Kong, which pioneered the use of stop-motion monsters in fantasy films.

Under O'Brien's influence, Ray Harryhausen created a series of fantastical characters with stunning effects, making him a legend unmatched in stop-motion animation history. For example, 1985's "Sinbad's Seventh Voyage" and 1963's "Ia and the Heroes of Yargu", and 1981's "Clash of the Titans", almost every one of them has become a classic of super-TV series. Before computer animation began to dominate cinematic stunts in the late 80s of the 20th century, stop-motion animation was the only means of creating fantasy characters that human actors could not play.

For example, the huge mechanical beast-shaped chariot in the famous 80's sci-fi film "The Empire Strikes Back" was shot in stop-motion stunts. For example, director Spielberg tried to shoot Jurassic Park with a realistic stop-motion model, but the stop-motion animators were unable to produce dinosaurs with completely realistic movements, and finally used the computer technology that made the film a big hit. It can be said that the golden age of stop-motion animation has since come to an end.

But the irreplaceable charm of this form of animation is still favored by some directors.

To this day, stop-motion animation still appears from time to time, and occasionally causes a craze, proving that stop-motion animation is dead and just hibernating, with quite a few new titles appearing around the world every year.

There have been many excellent works in my country, and many young people born in the 80s should still remember the popular Peacock Princess, "Magic Brush Ma Liang" and "The Story of Avanti" and other excellent stop-motion animations.

With the continuous maturity of computer technology, it seems that 3D special effects have the meaning of replacing stop-motion animation, but to be honest, whether 3D special effects can do all this is still completely unknown, so it is still necessary to understand the development of domestic stop-motion animation.