the first stop motion animation was made in 1907.
the first stop motion animation was made in 1907.
when was the first stop motion animation made?
1907
the first instance of the stop-motion technique can be credited to albert e. smith and j. stuart blackton for vitagraph's "the humpty dumpty circus" (1897), in which a toy circus of acrobats and animals comes to life. 









































in 1902, the film "fun in a bakery shop" used the stop trick technique in the "lightning sculpting" sequence. 









































french trick film maestro georges méliès used stop-motion animation once to produce moving title-card letters in one of his short films, and a number of his special effects are based on stop-motion photography.
stop motion
tim burton is very active in the field of stop motion animation. one of burton's first films, "vincent", is a six-minute stop motion animation about a young boy who wants to be vincent price. several of his early live-action films such as pee wee's big adventure and beetlejuice made use of stop motion. in 1993, burton produced the all-stop motion animation "the nightmare before christmas". the film was in production for three years due to the length of time it takes to shoot stop motion. the main characters in the film were puppets that in order to create realism in the film were structured hundreds of face models with different expressions. the film is based on a poem burton wrote inspired by "t'was the night before christmas" — it was then directed by henry selick. selick later directed the adaptation of "james and the giant peach", a blend between stop motion animation and live action film. in 2005 "corpse bride" was released, another stop motion piece from burton. computer animation of the aliens for his 1996 science fiction comedy, "mars attacks!" was deliberately made to look like stop motion when the film's budget did not allow for the use of the actual stop motion process, blurring the line between the two forms of animation.
list of stop motion artists