Object animation is another form of stop motion animation, it involves an animation being created by using non-drawn objects such as toys and dolls. It’s quite similar to clay animation only the characters and the backgrounds and not fully malleable, they are also not designed to look like recognizable charcaters.
The reasons for object animation being different to model and puppet animation are due to that in object animation the characters are not recognizable as they use objects like Lego and playmobil. Whereas in puppet and model animation the characters are recognizable.
However object animation is often used with puppet animation, for example, you can animate a train moving, but sometimes to create an animation with more depth, there is often an animated character.
The use of animated objects in TV shows and film has been used since the early days of the cinema.
The technique is very similar to other forms of stop motion, the dolls or toys are moved slightly each time, and then a still picture is taken to capture the little movements that the objects are making, the images are then put together and they are played quickly to give the effect that the toys or dolls are in motion.
As you can see the expressions on the dolls faces cannot be changed when the character is speaking, due to the fact that the dolls are not as malleable as clay or other forms of stop motion. Object animation is still used today, mostly on kid’s programs including cartoon network and other baby shows including toy bears and lego.
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