It is our good fortune that Passingham once again recognised a seismic technological opportunity to enhance animation and embraced stop motion animation software for motion control and layering multiple exposures. Kathy Michelle Chacón interviewed Passingham to discuss how light and colour played a role in conveying big emotions to audiences. In this 22nd film adaptation of Pinocchio, Guillermo del Toro tackles big questions, and the qualities of the animation and storytelling deliver a melancholic punch that bruises beyond the film’s end. Cricket, “Pinocchio” narratorĪ still from Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (Image via Instagram/pinocchiomovie) “It’s a story you may think you know, but you don’t.” – Sebastian J. Perhaps that’s why he worked with Passingham to invent new animation techniques for “Pinocchio”, which is his most recent film. Director Guillermo del Toro regards Passingham as one of the best and most influential cinematographers in animation cinema history. He convinced Nick Park, the creator of “Wallace & Gromit”, to use the digital medium. Frank Passingham, inventor of several stop motion techniques, was an early advocate for digital camera technology. Digital cameras marked a milestone in the evolution of stop motion animation, particularly as sensors became resistant to overheating during continuous live view. The preferred technology for stop motion animation in its infancy was 35mm film. What is the technology behind stop motion animation?

You can achieve incredible results with a smartphone, or elevate your creativity with professional gear. In this blog post I will walk you through installing software that is used by major animation studios today. Thanks to open source, the software and hardware to create sophisticated stop motion animated films is more accessible than ever before. Today you can make stop motion films on any budget Advancements in digital cinema have trickled back into stop motion animation, in particular. Digital cinema gained significant momentum in the early 90s, with well-funded endeavours from studios like Pixar and Disney. In 1993 “The Nightmare Before Christmas” was made by 120 workers, and was composed of 109,440 frames and 20 sound stages. The “Dynamation” technique introduced new ways to combine live actors with stop motion modelsĪfter the birth of the Internet, animated movies exploded in scale and popularity and so did the technologies behind them.

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