Stop Motion Animation

Stop Motion 

Stop motion (stop frame) is a newer animation Technique that manipulates objects to make them appear to move by its self. Just like Flip-book animation stop motion requires the object to be moved slightly in each photograph creating the illusion of movement. The way this works is by taking a picture of a clay figures (Wallace and Gromit) or dolls with movable parts added in to a movie like continuous sequence to produce movement.

Stop motion has been a long term technique in film, The first form of stop motion was created by Albert E. Smith and J.Stuart Blackton in 1898 for Vitagraph film studios production of (Humpty Dumpty Circus).
Smith and Blackton used toys of acrobats and animals to make the illusion of an animated circus in motion and come to life. Around December 1916 Helena Smith Dayton became the first female stop motion animator used clay figures in her stop motion projects and by 1917 she released her own stop motion version of of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In more modern times stop motion can be found in a verity of well known feature length movies such as in star wars: the empire strikes back AT-AT walkers and return of the jedi AT-ST Walkers were shot in stop motion, Robocop used Go motion in there films a type of stop motion.

Here are some examples of stop motion short and feature length movies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl55Cvy4L6Q (Angry kid)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUdew5gMbTg (Chicken Run Movie)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWqaXw0Vb48 (Spiderman Vs Green Goblin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGFzxGmFXDA (Superman vs predator) 

it is very easy to create stop motion animation movies all you need to do it take photographs with very small movements in each different picture and use a program on a pc or laptop even phones or tablets to add your pictures to a sequence that will move them fast enough to make them movie and come to life.

advantages

Very fun to make can be low cost if you are drawing and using clay but if you already have a camera even if its just on your phone then you can make a stop motion video.

Disadvantages

Very time consuming,  can need a high level of art and drawing skill can cost a bit of money to get a decent camera and also a professional program to make your videos.