The Stop-Motion Puppets of Aardman Animations! 

And he really helps bring out the things I would never have noticed on my own. I adore these shop tours of different prop makers, not only to see cool stuff but also just to take part in Adams fascination and joy at seeing all the lovely stuff. It comes across so well how much he enjoys it!

Right? Was thinking the same thing. Love seeing other people constantly smiling because of how interested adam is

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I luv the dp

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They're totally different styles. Not even comparable. Neither will "beat" the other... except cg could very well replicate and surpass (and it currently is) the look of hand animation. See the Lego Movie? That looked hand animated in just about every way except it wasn't... think about that

I agree, and I think there are many good reasons for that. One is, as you say, that when something exists in the real world it simply automatically has that sense of real-ness. Secondly, a very good hand animator knows how to get mass, gravity, and tiny thoughtful inflections into their animation, something an awful lot of keyframe or smoothed-out CGI animation struggles with and the primary reason why the CGI on Jurassic Park still stands up today (they used hand animators using special ‘electronic skeletons’ to input the animation into the computer). Thirdly as our media becomes ever more higher definition, CGI struggles to match the level of detail required to look ‘there’, and with every advance there comes a moment where some previously acceptable CGI now looks worse than something our home gaming console could do, obviously real objects don’t suffer from any of that.

I'm sure you're not hating on cg, as you've stated, but still I think you don't realize the massive capabilities of cg. I have no doubt in my mind that if a studio wanted to, they could recreate an Aardman-like film without anyone knowing it was done in cg. Yes, even down to the animations. As previously stated I think the Lego movie more or less proved that, if they hadn't revealed that everything was cg, people would've had no problem believing it to be stop-motion animated (I sure thought so for a while). Thing is people only realize they're looking at cg when its bad, and thats about 5% of the time or less (like big realistic characters/creatures etc) or being told it is cg. I love stop motion movies, I adore traditional 2d animation, and I'm so very fascinated by cg that I'm working as a 3d-artist in the industry. All these methods are perfectly valid ways of creating art, which artists can chose from based on their preference. But I don't think there's a specific magic to any of those methods, and not being magical or intangible, those processes can be broken down, analyzed, and copied by skilled cg artists and computers. I still think it's awesome there are studios persisting in making movies traditionally, though. The craft/method of creating such movies is a separate art of its own to me.

Benjamin Kraft - aardman have done a fully cgi animated movie, called Flushed Away, it’s pretty good, but it doesn’t pass as the real thing. Equally they do use cgi to add difficult to achieve effects like fog, or remove support armatures and facial seams and such, and it was used to change the ending of Attack of the Were-rabbit to give Wallace his normal ears back (he was originally animated with bunny ears). So they’re no stranger to it, they just prefer to do it the old fashioned way wherever possible.

+Lumibear "a very good hand animator knows how to get mass, gravity, and tiny thoughtful inflections into their animation". Key words: a very good hand animator. You can't compare the best of one field to the mediocre in another field. That's like comparing two restaurants by the head chef in one restaurant to the intern in the other. The main point is that you only notice CGI when it's bad. Another example is Mad Max, Fury road. People love to use it as an example of how practical effects are better than CGI, but they don't realise that the movie is actually full of CGI; they just don't notice it because it's done well. I found the best video about this topic is by Rocketjump film school: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bL6hp8BKB24.html (Why CG Sucks (Except It Doesn't)). By the way, I'm not all on the one side here. I agree that most hand animated movies stand the test of time better than CGI movies (I can't stand to watch movies with dated CGI), but as Benjamin Kraft said, it isn't right to compare them directly - they are different art forms, and both can be done well or poorly.

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I know your comment was made more than a year ago, but never the less: Remember that the expert have failed more times than the novice have tried!!!! I know from experience how hard it is to keep in mind, makes it even more important! Keep on failing, it's the only way to excellence.

I equally love both.

Agreed, and I don't even watch ghibli stuff or anime (is it anime? Kinda in its own class) and I would rate it top by far.

zhain0 anime just means japanese animation, so yes haha. but i­t­ is most certainly beautiful and unique

Have you ever watched anything by Laika (like Coraline?) They work with stop motion and have done an excellent job also.

Yes! You are so right.

Yeah i noticed that too!

Nick Nasty it's nothing interesting... Set up a stage. Prepare puppets. Start shooting, by moving puppets bit by bit, changing mouthpieces. Only good way showcasing it, is timelapse.

Jakub Grzybek it’s actually very interesting if you look at short snippets, and yes time lapses. I do a lot of stop motion and watching an animator at work is always interesting.

Julian R. Dene u first

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What's wrong with Wensleydale?!

Wallace and gromit are my favorite

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Yes!!!

The stop motion studio in the US was called Laikas.

Laika is the big one but there are actually many smaller studios that do stop motion for commercials and tv