Stop motion is one of the most tedious forms of animation out there, taking a whole week just to make 4 seconds of film. This process though has now been made more efficient and easy thanks to the help of 3-D printing. Before 3-D printing animators had to spend a lot more time on modeling clothes, faces, different poses and so on which took up a lot of time. 3-D printing made this process a lot faster, for example in Nightmare Before Christmas Jack Skelington had 800 faces made while the movie Paranorman had 1.5 million made thanks to the help of 3-D printing. They also use 3-D printing to make small objects or props that the characters use instead of computer generated ones making the movie look and feel more practical. Stop motion animation is a lot of work still, but is now made a whole lot easier because of 3-D printers.
This was a pretty nice article. It was easy to follow and a great source of information. I never fully realized about how much faster the process of stop motion can be because of a 3-D printer it's pretty amazing. Just look at the numbers, 800 faces used for Jack Skelington compared to 1.5 million faces used in Paranorman, that is a big difference! It doesn't necessarily make the animation process faster, but more so for the modeling. I am glad I read this just because I learned something from it. This was for the animation side of Digital Media. Overall great and interesting article.
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