Stop Motion Studio: Fun Movie-Maker Could Use a Coat of Wax
Stop-motion photography is the art of turning real life into a flipbook. It allows a film-maker to snap individual images over a great length of time, then compile hundreds or thousands of them into a scene. Played at speed, a video produced with stop-motion photography might appear to play out in less than a minute, even if it took hours to photograph.
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