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The Magic of Stop Motion

If you’re familiar with movies like Wallace and Gromit or those groovy Lego shorts on YouTube, then you’ve likely encountered stop motion. Stop motion (also known as stop action) is an animation technique used to make any chosen object appear to move on its own. The object is moved or manipulated slightly in small increments and captured in individually photographed frames. This creates the illusion of movement when a series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Ready to start your first stop motion animation?