Stop Motion

Stop motion is a type of animation which is also known as stop action. Stop motion is a technique to make objects seems to move of their own accord. To get the effect the objects is photographed and moved slightly between each photographic to give the impression of it moving on it's own. Clay models can be used in the production of stop motion photography, the use of clay is because the simplicity of being able to remake it looking like it is being moved. A famous example is Wallace and Gromit, the clay models were moved and redesigned to give the impression of movement.

Stop motion is a combination of many photographs, where the object is moved gradually and photographed every time movement has taken place, and when the images have been combined this is when the illusion of something moving on it's own takes place.

Animation

Animation is a quick sequence of still images (2D or 3D) when combined give the impression that movement is taking place. It is an optical illusion of motion, there are several ways of it being created but the most common method of showing animation are motion picture of video program but there are other methods.

This image shows how the ball is slightly moved up each time with a different frame being added each time to make it look like the ball is bounced up and down. When this is put together it will be placed on a loop so that the ball gives the impression that it is moving up and down over and over again.