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My school did a workshop about it when I was like 10 and I think the amount of care and dedication it takes to hand crafting each and every frame is so cool. When its done well you get a really stylised films, I’m thinking like Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, ParaNorman and The Box Trolls all of which I loved as a kid and every time I rewatch them I get the same sense of childlike wonder I did when I watched them the first time. I know there’s a lot of crossover with CGI now when making them but just the concept of stop motion animation is really cool.
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@bensinc
Apr 13, 2025
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@1strawberrysecret
Yess! I made one recently using paper and ink during a break. So fun. The wind was not my friend that day
Apr 13, 2025
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@softshelled
I‘ll rec all of Adam Elliot’s work. I loved watching Wallace & Gromit (still do of course) but other than that Mary & Max was the first big thing I got to see at the movies, it came out just before Caroline also had this rinky dink local VHS rental that I’d get Chicken Run and James & The Giant Peach from! They had Jason & The Argonauts and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad too which I really digged as a kid (:
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@marnimarni
Have you ever visited any exhibits where you get to see all the puppets and sets?
Apr 13, 2025
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@bensinc
@MARNIMARNI exhibits no. But as a part of the workshop I got to make a clay model and have a go at trying to make a scene.
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