Stop Motion

Stop Motion is the art of inaminate objects appearing to move by themselves on film. This effect is created when photographs, of said object are taken and then moved slightly then taking another photograph, creating the illusion of movement.
   - A LEGO car moving using stop motion.

The first instance of the stop motion technique can be credited to Albert E. Smith for The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1897), in which a toy circus of acrobats and animals comes to life. Perhaps the most recognisable is Willis O'Brien's 'KingKong (1933). More modernly Wallace and Gromit Curse of the Were-Rabbit uses clay models as they are easily moveable, in a whole days worth of photographs around 3 seconds of film is compiled. This process is very lengthy and would take even longer if I were to attempt stop motion myself in my own film, for said reasons I will not be using stop motion, although I am interested in using some sort of animation.