Stop Motion is an animation technique in which photography is used to capture each frame of animation. The most popular form of stop motion is claymation, where clay is manipulated slightly between each frame so as to appear animated. The techniques that I'm more interested in however are graphic animation and time lapse animation. Graphic animation is most closely associated with animated cartoons, but can be created with photographs of anything, not just drawings. Time lapse animation seeks to speed up time, taking frames of an object or location in extended intervals. A main contributor to this technique was Dr. John Ott, who photographed plants as they grew and created stop motion animations of the plants appearing to grow very rapidly. Ott even developed a way to create the appearance of a panning camera and controlled the amount of water the plants recieved in order to make them droop down or spring up over time, so in the animations they appeared dance-like. Above is an example of a compilation of frames I created that might be used to form a stop motion animation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_motion
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