New Worlds largest gangbang
To follow up on Annabelle Chongs first, here is the newest in what is becoming a long line of followers. The line in order to get a piece of these followers is even longer… 1001 men to participate in the longest ever shoot.
Pin up and burlesque art show in Ca. Would love to go to this and learn more and see it first hand.
Something funny to add to the porn information. A flow chart on videos.
Story of a girl Who tried prostitution to make her way through college. Another "good" prostitute story.
Hedonism is looking better and better
Article on sexual morality
I've stated before that my problem isn't with prostitutes and hustlers, but rather the people who pay for their services. THis is an article on why men buy sex.
Porn stars crossing over into other movies.
Anna farris to play deep throat in new film
amazing website work by Cam De Leon
My video combo idea fleshed out… I thought I would be the first, but I never am. Oh well.
Porn
Intelligent porn at popwhore
Eco porn at Fuck for Forest
And porn news at free porn times
More porn debate at sexual intelligence
… is one of the reasons porn is so great is because it is taboo? Is this one of those situation where there are people who do not want it free and opne cause it wouldn't be as much fun?
Article on different sex topics in america at sexual intelligence though it is a bit old
Japan's oldest porn star on CNN interestingly, it starts up with this almost "evil" or bad person kinda vibe, but by the end, CNN seems to actually be supporting this guy. I say go for grandpa… older japanese men are sexy anyway… But they may just be the huge crush I had on Kotani my ceramics professor talking.
Evidently I should no longer be protected by the 1st ammendment cause I look at porn again and again
I guess this is what the anti-porn people would approve of but I'm sure that wasn't his intention.
PROSTITUTES in art (8/15/08)
http://www.searchme.com/stack/12eba
A list of pages about prostitutes in art
Violet Blue is one of my hero's. I love how she is open and honest and not afraid to say what she thinks about sex and everything else too.
Video Camera Techniques (8/13/08)
http://shop.lomography.com/labrats/
Interesting things to do with film
http://lifehacker.com/software/digital-video/8-ways-to-shoot-video-like-a-pro-214043.php
The 8 rules to be a better videographer… or something like that. I never knew all the extre shots I get were called B-roll, well now I do!
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/08/08/build-your-own-in-car-camera-mount-for-about-15/
How to mount a camera on the inside of the car for cheap! Just what I need!
http://www.camerahacker.com/Car_Camera_Mount/index.shtml
Another type of car mount
http://www.ae92gts.com/ae92gts_video_mount.html
Another, but it goes across both seats so I don't think i could sleep in the car. A possible problem considering the trip.
http://my350z.com/forum/audio-video-electronics-diy/375345-diy-camera-mount-car-footage.html
This wouldn't come through at work, but it's suppose to be another DIY
Directors (8/13/08)
100 greatest directors of all time Here according to ??? IDK
I like this list better, less dead white men
Here Is the top five silent movie directors… Did they do silent porn films?
another top 40 list for directors. If I look through them and find the ones that are on all of them, I'm sure those are probably the ones I don't care for.
came here for another list, but found that it is really useful for other things as well. They break down the information so that it is more readily assessable.
Japan (4/20/08)
News For the latest news on Japan
Enjo Kosai Explanation of the subsidized dating in Japan.
Kogal Explanation of the kogal subculture in Japan
Gyaru Explanation of the gyaru look in Japan
Ganguro Explanation of the Ganguro look
Gothic Lolita Explanation of the gothic lolita look in Japan
Harajuku The place where all the Japanese fashions happen, and now the term used to describe the phenomenon. An explanation.
J-Horror An explanation of what J-Horror is
J-pop An explanation of the J-pop music scene.
J-Music A short informational site on music in Japan
J-Music A site dedicated to the popular music in Japan, including j-pop, j-rock and others.
Radio Kawaii radio- Has to be opened in media player, but good example of j-pop. j-rock and anime music.
Ghosts examples of Japanese ghosts
Images What the Asian Website wth images of Japanese life
Pictures More pictures of Japanese life.
Cosplay Images of cosplay
Water system The tunnels under Japan to help with flooding, make me think of evangelion.More
Video Streaming episodes of different anime.
Anime explanation of Anime
Info Up to date info on anime releases and such
Otaku More info on anime's including reviews and fan info
gateways Entrances to different Japanese stores. An art project.
Osbourne Kelly Odbourne in Japan and her experiences.
Dolls (3/16/08)
Dollfie A Japanese Fashion doll that is jointed and can be customized. This is one of my beginnings in connecting the Japanese pop culture to my doll making, as well as odalisques.
Teru Teru Bozu Dolls are a traditional Japanese doll that were made for good weather. They are still used, but some artists have begun using them as well. THis is another link in my research between the Dolls, Japan and the Odalisque.
The Barbs The Barbie based artworks by Deborah Colotti. These ideas have inspired me to possibly use some pre-made dolls for some of my work. I like the statements her works make. Although I'm sure there are people who would be offended by them, it's a humorous way to approach the problem of Body Image.
Crudo's work with barbie dolls deals with the sexual nature of asexual creatures. Ken is featured as well, and it is a different way to look at Barbie.
Michael Hernandez de Luna
McBarbie, 2005
Collage on digitally enhanced print
17 x 21 in.
Odalisque ceramic doll. The only info I could find was by Blythe
Speaking of Blythe
Blythe Dolls were dolls that came out in '73 (A year before I was born) that are a huge thing in Japan and a cult following in America. THe dolls eyes can change color with a button or string in the back of their heads and people love to dress them up. There are even Blythe clothes shop online in places like Etsyand Ebay
Blythe Japan Beat
Artists (3/5/08)
Some of the artists I have been looking so far
Fafi creates female characters and creates dolls of them as well
Gaelle Denis Who created this gorgeous movie which uses computer animation, drawn animation and live action. Which is precisely what I am working toward, but maybe not like this, but it's still cool.
Javan Ivey who created a uniue paper cut animation technique that I might have to think about using.
Laura Racero Makes the most gorgeous photography/digital art, which is suppose to be my medium. I love her images they are so clear and bright an imaginative.
Francois Debeau The one thing I have really tried to do in my art career is work on my line control, out of everything I see in artists I really respect the line control better than anything else. This guy has it. I love his work, he shows so much with so little line.
Shaun O'boyle don't know if it's the place or the photographer but I love these photographs. The contrast, the ruin, it's great.
Gregory Euclide creates gorgeous images that contain almost all the elements I love, line control, color, messy spray paint look, great composition with visual balance. This is the art I'm always trying to get myself to make.
Julien Martinezdolls are gorgeous and grotesque at the same time. The images are haunting but familiar. I love her style and look.
Odilon Redon Not edward gorey as I first thought, which is exactly why I put it in here. His work looks so much like edward goreys and he is an all time favorite of mine. I live the cross hatching. And ta any time I find an artist that I have never even heard of not even in passing or mentioned in one of my books, I have to look him up. How have I NOT heard of this guy???
Kirsten Hassenfeld Absolutely gorgeous paper sculptures that have the look I seem to be drawn to. I really like white paper art. Don't know where that came from, it's kinda opposite of what I usually like, black, messy dark stuff….
Pink Vice Productions Because of that name, I'm pretty sure this wasn't a solo efort, but I love the animation sequence, this is cery much ike something I would like to do. The theme, the idea, the look, everything is great.
Ariana Page Russel has kind of a niche art going on. I love the way she has used what most would consider a handicap to create her art. Plus her photography is very good, not to mention the skin issues.
graffiti art is in my roots, I guess it's one of the first arts I learned or rather participated in, so I will always be partial to it. These are just some random images.
Young & Rubicam This is exactly how I want my animation to look. I like the kinda like paper, but computerized look, similar to the ended credit animations on a series of unfortunate events.
Odalisques (2/25/08)
This is my initial time-line for studying the odalisque in art. I am focusing ONLY on artwork that has the title of odalisque for the first packet
Boucher 1743 Odalisca
Boucher 1752 Blonde Odalisque
Ingres 1814 Grande Odalisque
Bonington 1826 Odalisque in yellow
Delacroix 1827 Odalisque reclining on Divan
Pradier 1841 Odalisque
Bridgeman 1878 Odalisque
Delacroix 1857 Odalisque
Fortuny 1861 L'Odalisque
Fortuny 1862 Odalisque
Manet 1862 Odalisque
Leighton 1862 Odalisque
Renoir 1870 Odalisque
Lefebivre 1874 Odalisque
Polenov 1875 Odalisque
Bridgeman 1878 Odalisque
Renoir 1916 Sleeping Odalisque
Matisse 1922 Odalisque with Red Trousers
Matisse 1923 Odalisque, Half Length
Matisse 1926 Odalisque (Harmony in red)
Matisse 1928 Odalisque
Hayez 1939 Odalisque
Horst P. Horst 1943 Odalisque
Picasso 1968 Odalisque
Marr 2004 Odalisque
Beckett-Griffith 2006 Fairy Odalisque
along with a series of amateur works done by artists on flicker and a series of humorous odalisques I have found as well.
With this time line I will compare and contrast the different works, artists and styles. Research the artists reasoning for using the term and possibly the actual Odalisque as an inspiration, as well as enlightening my self to why I find this particular subject so fascinating.
Artists
Some artists I have been looking at recently and links to their work.
Julie Hill Who's work is reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley has made me want to go out and buy new pens. I love her use of line, repetition and pos/neg space. And I lik her motton, make somethin every day… I'm gona do that… soon.
Tes One The work is graphic and clean but still interesting and alive. His art is graffiti based but uses digital art as well. He uses and overlapping effect that interests me alot. He has a good use of color but images are flat without value a lot of times. Somehow he still manages to create depth though.
Banksy is graffiti! He really makes statements with his art and makes people think. There is also a concept behin his art, most everything he does is illegal, I think my favorite work from him are the pieces he manged to hang up in famous galleries undetected. Some of the works hung there for weeks before they were noticed. That makes a lot of different statement. His work is technically sound as well, paintings as technical as the masters, depth, form and intelligence. He is the modern day Du Champ.
Renee Magritte… Ok, I know he is not someone knew and I'm suppose ot be researching new artists, but this is a great page and his work is so clean and interesting. He really inspires me to be a better artist… and isn't that what it's about?
20x200, Ok, not an artist, but several unknown artists trying to sell their work. I think it's interesting to look at people's work even if they are not considered famous or professional or whatever. The Manshroom is great.
Tim Nobel and Sue Webster have created a type of art that orders on original. I know there are people who would argue trash as art, but I love the idea that the light is the art, the shadow, the play of light and dark on the wall. It makes it pecial somehow, fleeting, almost auto-destructive, but not quite.
Suloni I like this person, she does so many things, I feel a kindred spirit of sorts I guess. Her style ranges from the messy water color to the extra clean graphic digital pieces.. and felt!! I wish I didn't find sewing so tedious. I love little felt and cotton things.
Limbo If I could animate my story, this is how it would look. I do not think I possess the skills to accomplish something like this though. Limbo is a game… so far that's all I know about it. I haven't gotten any other info. As soon as I know more, I will post.
Nagi Noda
More Nagi
Even More Nagi I love this girls work, it's funny and cute and intelligent and not what you expect. it's so full of color and life and jst so Pop Culture Japan!!. I love it. Out of my research she is by far the best artist (For me) that I've found. I would love to do a video inspired by her… but where do I find that many people who look alike?
Peanuts Ok this is less of a great inspiration and more of a just really cool. Never thought the peanuts could look that good.
Book Four artists sent a sketchbook back and forth to each other and filled it up (And then some, look at the spine.) This was what I had hoped for with our sketchbook assignment. I want to try this again, maybe with artists who want to do it. I love the idea of working off one another for inspiration and the works are so different.
Julian Oliver an Amazing Digital artist who is working on this amazing Game plus is just s frikkin genius with the computer. Pocket Garden is awesome and his stuff is just so creative. He goes beyond the simple title of digital artist. I would have to give him another title… I just don't know that it is yet.
Andreas Rocha My list just wouldn't be complete without a man eating tree or something of the like. My favorite prt of the particular image, the person watching from the window.. very Hitchcockian. I like the artists attention to detail and the way it tells a story… This is an image that my old professor would call high-schoolish and campy I'm sure. So tehre is a litle part of me that feels like I am not allowed to like this art… But I DO DAMMIT!!! I like the scary goth stuff. It's part of who I am. Anyway, the artist herself is talented technically as well as creatively.
Stop motion animation
(Copied from Wikipedia)
== Stop Motion ==
Stop motion is used to produce the animated movements of ''any'' non-drawn objects, including toys, blocks and dolls. This is known as [[object animation]].
Stop motion is also the means for producing [[pixilation]], the animation of a living human being or animal, seen in whole or in part. Examples are the films of [[Mike Jittlov]] such as his ''The Wizard of Speed and Time'' short film (1980) and feature film of the same name (1987-9), the startling French 1989 short ''Gisele Kerozene'' by Eisa Cayo and Jan Kunen, and some of the work of Scottish pioneer animator Norman McLaren.
One unusual (and certainly an exacting and laborious) stop motion technique is called [[pinscreen animation]], first developed in Europe in the 1920s and refined in later decades by various animators working for the [[National Film Board of Canada]]. Pinscreen animation consists of thousands (or even millions) of pins evenly placed on a screen, able to be pushed and/or pulled through the screen, from both sides of the screen. Using a system of rollers, brayers, and other tools, various pins are pushed in and/or out of the screen to varying degrees, all carefully controlled. With lights set up at 90 degree angles to the screen, the shadows of extended pins fall on the heads of more retracted pins, creating a variety of silhouetted images that are animated frame-by-frame as various pins are carefully pushed in and/or out of the screen. An example of this is the 1976 National Film Board of Canada short, ''Mindscape''.
A variation of stop motion (and possibly more conceptually associated with traditional flat cel animation and paper drawing animation, but still technically qualifying as stop motion) is [[graphic animation]] which is the animation of photographs (in whole or in parts) and other non-drawn flat visual graphic material. Examples are Frank Mouris' 1973 Oscar-winning short film ''Frank Film'' and Charles Braverman's ''Braverman's Condensed Cream of Beatles'' (1972).
A simplified variation of graphic animation is called [[direct manipulation animation]] which involves the frame-by-frame altering (or adding to) a single graphic image, as close as the stop motion process gets to the process of simply animating a series of drawings, which most people associate with the generic "animation" term. Examples of direct-maipulation-animation are parts of J. Stuart Blackton's 1906 ''Humorous Phases of Funny Faces'' parts of Winsor McCay's films from the 1910s, sections of Max and Dave Fleischer's ''Out of the Inkwell'' series of the 1920s, the chalk animation opening sequence of Will Vinton's ''Dinosaur'' (1980), and parts of Mike Jittlov's 1977 short film, ''Animato'', which also uses graphic animation and pixilation.
Mere pieces of paper, sometimes with images drawn upon them, can be animated with stop motion, and is called [[cutout animation]] when lit from the camera side of the artwork (or to the sides of the artwork) so as to show the details of the paper such as color, textures, etc. The most prevalent use of cutout animation has been in [[Eastern Europe]], where it has been a popular technique since the [[1940s]], being used in award-winning films such as ''[[Tale of Tales]]''. In the West, cutout animation is probably better known for having been used to produce the demo pilot for [[Comedy Central]]'s ''[[South Park]]'' series (then later simulated via computer animation for the main series).
[[Image:Achmed1.jpg|thumb|''[[The Adventures of Prince Achmed]]'' (1926) - [[silhouette animation]]]]
When backlighted, cutout animation becomes simplified dark (black) images and is referred to as [[silhouette animation]]. It was used by German animation pioneer [[Lotte Reiniger]] for many short films as well as ''[[The Adventures of Prince Achmed]]'' (1926), the oldest-surviving feature-length animated film.
Probably the most passive form of stop motion is [[time lapse]] animation in which a stop motion camera is simply clicked (manually or via an electronic intermittent control device called an ''intervalometer'') to take a frame of film as each period of time lapses, as natural objects of nature and mankind move of their own accord, non-interfered with by the animator. The most common uses for time lapse stop-motion are moving clouds, seen daily during weather forecasts in moving satellite imagery, the speeding up of the growth of plants, and stars as they appear to "revolve" around the Earth. Although a few film makers experimented with time-lapse movie photography as far back as the silent film days, the main pioneer of the technique was Dr. John Ott, of Sarasota Florida, USA, who also developed the first automated-time-lapse systems for also moving the cameras as they photographed growing plants. Ott even broke the 'rule" of non-manipulation by changing his lights' color-temperatures with various filters and watering (or not watering) his plants to cause them to "dance" up and down in sync to a pre-recorded musical track. Ott did work for the Disney studio in the 50s before evolving into studies of the color-temperature of lights on the health of plants, then animals, and then humans. His "ott-Lights", which produce light specifically designed to stimulate better health in the user, are currently sold at select lighting stores throughout the world. Other time-lapse refiners are Ron Fricke and Geoffery Reggio in films such as ''Koyaanisqatsi'' (1983) ''Baraka'' (1992), and ''Chronos'' (1994); the Oxford Film Labs in Oxford, England, and Dan Ackerman of Portland, Oregon, USA.
All animation, including all stop motion, requires a camera, using either motion picture film or some kind of digital image capturing system, that can expose single [[frame (film)|frame]]s. It works by shooting a single frame of an object, then moving the object slightly, then shooting another frame. When the film runs continuously in a film projector, or other video playback system, the illusion of fluid motion is created and the objects appear to move by themselves. This is similar to the animation of cartoons, but using real objects instead of drawings.
== History ==
Stop motion animation is almost as old as film-making itself. Of the forms already mentioned, [[object animation]] is the oldest, then [[direct manipulatiuon]], followed (roughly) by sequential drawings on multiple pages, which quickly evolved into [[cel animation]], with [[clay animation]], [[pixilation]], [[puppet animation]], and [[time-lapse]] being developed concurrently next. The first instance of the stop motion technique can be credited to Albert E. Smith and [[J. Stuart Blackton]] for ''The Humpty Dumpty Circus'' (1898), in which a toy circus of acrobats and animals comes to life. In 1902, the film, ''Fun in a Bakery Shop'' used clay for a stop-motion "lightning sculpting" sequence. French trick film mistro Georges Méliès used it to produce moving title-card letters for one of his short films, but never exploited the process for any of his other films. ''The Haunted Hotel'' (1907) is another stop motion film by James Stuart Blackton, and was a resounding success when released. [[Segundo de Chomón]] (1871-1929), from Spain, released '''''[[El Hotel eléctrico]]''''' later that same year, and used similar techniques as the Blackton film. In 1908, ''A Sculptor's Welsh Rarebit Nightmare'' was released, as was ''The Sculptor's Nightmare'', a film by Billy Bitzer. French animator Emil Cole impressed audiences with his object animation tour-de-force, ''The Automatic Moving Company'' in 1910.
One of the earliest clay animation films was ''Modelling Extraordinary'', which dazzled audiences in 1912. December of 1916, brought the first of Willie Hopkin's 54 episodes of "Miracles in Mud" to the big screen. Also in December of 1916, the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, began experimenting with clay stop motion. She would release her first film in 1917, ''Romeo and Juliet''.
The great European stop motion pioneer was [[Ladislas Starevich|Ladyslaw Starewicz]] (1892-1965), who animated ''The Beautiful Lukanida'' (1910),'' The Battle of the Stag Beetles'' (1910), ''The Ant and the Grasshopper'' (1911), ''Voyage to the Moon'' (1913), ''On the Warsaw Highway'' (1916), ''Frogland'' (1922), ''The Magic Clock'' (1926), ''The Mascot'', (aka, ''The Devil's Ball'') (1934), ''In the Land of the Vampires'' (1935), and the feature film ''[[The Tale of the Fox]]'' (1937), to name but a few of his over fifty animated films.
Starewicz was the first filmmaker to use stop-action animation and puppets to tell consistently coherent stories. He began by producing insect documentaries which, in turn, led to experiments with the stop-action animation of insects and beetles. Initially he wired the legs to the insects' bodies, but he improved this substantially in the ensuing years by creating leather and felt-covered puppets with technically advanced ball & socket armatures. One of his innovations was the use of [[motion blur]] which he achieved, most likely, by the use of hidden wires, which, because they were moving, didn't register on film during long exposures of each frame.
His techniques took hold among the [[avant-garde]] in Eastern Europe in the 1920s and '30s, growing out of a strong cultural tradition of [[puppetry]]. One such artist was Russian/Ukrainian filmmaker [[Alexander Ptushko]], whose first major work, ''[[The New Gulliver]]'' (lang-ru|''Новый Гулливер'', Novyy Gullivyer) ([[1935 in film|1935]]), was the first [[feature film]] to use 3-D stop motion animation ([[Lotte Reiniger]]'s feature film ''[[The Adventures of Prince Achmed]]'' had used 2-D stop motion in [[1926 in film|1926]]) and the first to combine stop-motion with live action footage. Ptushko built 1,500 separate puppets for this remarkable film. Each of the puppets had a detachable head, which made them capable of a wide range of expressions and personality.
Other notable artists include the influential Czech animator [[Jiří Trnka]]. The aesthetic tradition of the puppet film was continued by [[Bretislav Pojar]], Kihachiro Kawamoto, [[Ivo Caprino]], [[Jan Svankmajer|Jan Švankmajer]], Jiri Barta, Stephen and Timothy Quay ([[Brothers Quay]]), the Bolex Brothers, and Galina Beda.
A notable stop motion object animator was Germany's Oskar Fischinger who animated anything he could get his hands on in a series of impressive short abstract art films during the 20s and 30s. The best example is his 1934 film, ''Composition in Blue''. Fischinger was hired by Disney to animate the "rolling hills" footage used in the opening "Toccata & Fugue" sequence of ''Fantasia'' (1940).
The great pioneer of American stop motion was [[Willis O'Brien]] (1886-1963). In 1914, O'Brien began animating a series of short subjects set in prehistoric times. He animated his early creations by covering wooden armatures with clay, a technique he further perfected by using ball & socket armatures covered with foam, foam latex, animal hair and fur. ''Birth of a Flivver'' (1915), ''Morpheus Mike'' (1915), ''The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy'' (1916), ''R.F.D. 10,000 B.C.: A Mannikin Comedy'' (1917/18), ''The Ghost of Slumber Mountain'' (1919), [[The Lost World (1925 film)|''The Lost World'']] (1925), ''[[King Kong (1933 film)|King Kong]]'' (1933), ''[[The Son of Kong]]'' (1933), and, with the assistance of a young [[Ray Harryhausen]], ''Mighty Joe Young'' (1949), yet these were but a few of the many films he animated. O'Brien's ''Nippy's Nightmare'' (1916) was first film to combine live actors with stop-motion characters. His partnership with the great Mexican-American model makers/craftsmen/special effects artists/background painters/set builders, Marcel Delgado, Victor Delgado and Mario Larrinaga, led to some of the most memorable and remarkable stop-motion moments in film history.
O'Brien’s imaginative use of stop-motion, and his ambitious and inventive filmmaking, has inspired generations of film greats such as Ray Harryhausen, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Jim Danforth, Art Clokey, Pete Kleinow, Tim Burton, David Allen, Phil Tippett and Will Vinton, as well as thousands of lesser known animators, both professional and amateur. Many leading Science-Fiction and Fantasy writers also credit him as a great source of inspiration.
One of the more idiosyncratic early users of stop-motion techniques was the American comedian and cartoonist [[Charley Bowers|Charles Bowers]] who employed stop-motion techniques (which he called the "Bowers Process") in his series of silent short comedies in the 1920s and early 1930s. In his 1926 film ''Now You Tell One'', he skillfully uses stop-motion to create such effects as a straw hat growing on a man's head, cats growing out of a plant, and a mouse firing a gun. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017214/]
Puppeteer [[Lou Bunin]] created one of the first stop motion puppets using wire armatures and his own rubber formula. The short, satiric film about WWII entitled ''Bury the Axis'' debuted in the [[1939 New York World's Fair]]. Bunin went on to produce a feature-length film version of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' with a live-action Alice and stop-motion puppets portraying all the rest of the characters. Bunin was [[blacklisted]] in the 1950s but still managed to create numerous TV commercials using stop motion techniques, as well as a number of children's short films.
Willis O'Brien's student [[Ray Harryhausen]] made many movies using a more elaborate version of puppet animation called [[model animation]], first pioneered by O'Brien, mainly for his feature length films, the differnce being that model animation strives to be "photo-realistic" enough to be able to be combined with live action elements to create a final fantasy sequence that allows the audience to suspend their disbelief that they are watching animation elements. Example of his model animation techniques; most famously, are the seven-skeleton sequence from ''[[Jason and the Argonauts (film)|Jason and the Argonauts]]'' (1963). But aside from the more "disguised" stop motion efforts of O'Brien and Harryhausen, America and Britain were slower to embrace the stop-motion film, and so its use mainly grew out of other locations and sources.
One acclaimed European puppet animation producer to break out in America was Hungarian animator [[George Pal]], who, partially working in The Netherlands, produced a series of films in Europe during the 30s before coming to Hollywood to create more shorts in the 40s, now called ''Puppetoons'' under the Paramount banner, seven of which were nominated for Academy Awards for best animated film. In the late 40s, Pal evolved into feature film production, incorporating puppet animation into a live action setting in such films as ''The Great Rupert'' (1949), ''Tom Thumb'' (1958), and ''The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm'' (1963). Pal used model-animation (animated by Jim Danforth) in two other feature films, ''The Time Machine'' (1960) and ''The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao'' (1964), the latter nominated for a Special Effects Oscar, and the former winning the EFX Oscar award. Pal's work is documented in two feature films by Arnold Lebovitt, released in the mid-80s, ''The Puppetoon Movie'' and ''The Fantastic World of George Pal'' which are currently available on DVD. More of Danforth's skilled model animation can be seen in "Jack the Giant Killer" (1962), the ending fire ladder sequence for "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" (1963), "The Zanti Misfits" and "Counterweight" episodes of the original "Outer Limits" TV series (1964), and, with equally prolific model animator David Allen, in "Equinox" (also titled "The Beast") (1967, 1970), "Flesh Gordon" (1974), and the prehistoric comedy "Caveman" (1981).
Dominating children's TV stop-motion programming for three decades in America was Art Clokey's ''[[Gumby]]'' series, which lasted into the 70s, and spawned a feature film, ''Gumby I'' in 1995. Using both freeform and character clay animation, the series also used much object animation as Gumby and his clay pals interacted with various toys. Clokey started his adventures in clay with a 1953 freeform clay short film called ''Gumbasia'' (1953) which shortly thereafter propelled him into his more structured Gumby TV series.
The [[Walt Disney]] studio dabbled with puppet-object animation in 1959 with the release of a 21-minute experimental short, ''Noah's Ark'', nominated for an animated film Oscar for that year. Disney didn't exploit the technique until their association with Tim Burton, starting with Burton's short film ''Vincent'' in 1982.
Although not technically animation, American children's television in the 1950s had often used string-puppets (also called marionettes, an antirely live-action process which some people have mistaken for a form of animation), such as those in ''The Howdy Doody Show'' and the various children's science fiction series such as "Supercar" and "Fireball XL5" in the early and mid 60s, spoofed in the 2004 feature film, "Team America". In Britain the glove-puppet had been part of popular culture from the days of [[Punch and Judy]], with American glove puppet counterparts featured in Bob Clampett's 50s TV version of "Beany and Cecil" in the Los Angeles area (an early multiple Emmy winner, which he developed into an animated cartoon series in the early 60s), and Sheri Lewis' syndicated hand puppet shows featureing "Hush Puppy", "Lamb Chop", and "Charley Horse" in the early 60s, all influences on the later highly developed and refined puppet work of Jim Henson.
In November 1959 the first episode of ''[[Sandmännchen]]'' was shown on East German television, a children's show that had [[cold war]] propaganda as its primary function. New episodes are still being produced in Germany, making it one of the longest running animated series in the world. However, the show's purpose today has changed to pure entertainment.
In the 1960s, the French animator Serge Danot created the well-known ''[[The Magic Roundabout]]'' (from 1965) which played for many years on the [[BBC]]. Another French/Polish stop-motion animated series was ''[[Colargol]]'' (''Barnaby the Bear'' in the UK, ''Jeremy'' in Canada), by Olga Pouchine and Tadeusz Wilkosz.
A British TV-series ''[[The Clangers]]'' (1969) became popular on television. The British artists Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall ([[Cosgrove Hall Films]]) produced a full-length film ''[[The Wind in the Willows (film)|The Wind in the Willows]]'' (1983) and later a multi-season TV-series ''[[The Wind in the Willows (TV-series)|The Wind in the Willows]]'' based on [[Kenneth Grahame]]'s children's classic book [[The Wind in the Willows]]. They also produced a documentary of their production techniques, ''Making Frog and Toad''.
Disney once again experimented with several stop-motion techniques by hiring independent animator-director [[Mike Jittlov]] to do the first stop motion animation of [[Mickey Mouse]] toys ever produced for a short sequence called ''Mouse Mania'', part of a TV special commemorating Mickey Mouse's 50th Anniversary called ''Mickey's 50th'' in 1978.
Jittlov again produced some impressive multi-technique stop-motion animation a year later for a 1979 Disney special promoting their release of the feature film ''The Black Hole''. Titled ''Major Effects'', Jittlov's work stood out as the best past of the special. Jittlov released his footage the following year to 16 mm film collectors as a short film titled ''The Wizard of Speed and Time'', along with four of his other short multi-technique animated films, most of which eventually evolved into his own feature-length film of the same title. Effectively demonstrating almost all animation techniques, as well as how he produced them, the film was released to theaters in 1987 and to video in 1989.
Italian stop motion films include ''[[Quaq Quao]]'' (1978), by Francesco Misseri, which was stop-motion with [[origami]], ''The Red and the Blue'' and the clay animation kitties ''Mio and Mao''.
A stop-motion animated series of Tove Jansson's "[[The Moomins]]" (from 1979), produced by Film Polski and Jupiter Films was also a European production, made in different countries like Poland and Austria. This stop-motion was rather primitive, sometimes the puppets "moved" by a series of stills instead of showing actual movements.
In North America, Jules Bass produced a series of popular Christmas specials such as ''[[Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer]]'' and ''[[Frosty the Snowman]]'' (using '[[Animagic]]', their trade name for their version of stop motion puppetry) (1964). The specials were animated in [[Japan]] by Japanese stop-motion pioneer [[Tadahito Mochinaga]]. Another clay-animated children's TV series ''[[Davey and Goliath]]'', produced by Art Klokey, lasted from 1960 to 1977. Rankin-Bass also produced a puppet animation feature length film, ''[[Mad Monster Party]]'' in 1967 and combined puppet animation with live action in ''[[The Daydreamer]]'' their feature film released in 1966.
A puppet animation feature-length film directed by Marc Paul Chinoy and based on the famous "Pogo" comic strip was produced in 1980. Titled ''I go Pogo'', it was aired a few times on American cable channels but, sadly, was never released to video.
Although seemingly a natural marriage, stop-motion has very rarely been shot in ''[[stereoscopic]]'' ''[[three-dimensional space|3D]]'' throughout film history. The first '''3-D stop-motion''' short is ''In Tune With Tomorrow''(aka ''Motor Rhythm'') (1939) by '''John Norling'''[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635408/. The second stereoscopic stop-motion release is ''The Adventures of Sam Space''(1955) by '''Paul Sprunck'''[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819879/. The third and latest stop-motion short in stereo 3-D is ''The Incredible Invasion of the 20,000 Giant Robots from Outer Space''(2000) by '''Elmer Kaan'''[http://www.moonridge5.com/credits_elmer_kaan.html & '''Alexander Lentjes''' This is also the first ever '''3-D stereoscopic stop-motion & CGI''' short in the history of film. Allegedly, the very first all-stop-motion 3-D feature is scheduled for a 2008 release: ''[[Coraline]''by '''[[Henry Selick]''', being produced out of Nike shoe founder Phil Knight's new "Leika" animation studio in Portland, Oregon, formerly Will Vinton's "Claymation" studio.
* PES
* Brickfilms
* Bob the Builder
* Daddy's Little Bit of Dresden China
* Poko
* Moral Orel
* Art Clokey and Gumby
* Pat and Mat
* Émile Courtet
* Camberwick Green/Trumpton/Chigley
* Cosgrove Hall and The Wind in the Willows, Postman Pat, Oakie Doke
* George Pál and Puppetoons
* Nick Park and Wallace and Gromit
* Playmobil
* The Brothers Quay
* Rankin-Bass and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
* Lotte Reiniger
* Henry Selick and The Nightmare Before Christmas
* Ladislas Starevich
* Jan Svankmajer
* Jiří Trnka
* The Magic Roundabout
* The Herbs
* Goro
* Claymation
* Ivo Caprino and Flåklypa Grand Prix (Original title) / Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (English title)
* A Cape Breton Ghost Story
* Phantom Investigators
* Willis O'Brien
* Ray Harryhausen
* Time-lapse
* Go motion
* List of stop-motion films