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Scaling physical effects for miniature stop motion means treating apparent scale as a designed interaction…

A stop-motion animation stage is the rigid, accessible platform and surrounding shooting space that supports…

Animator access in stop-motion set design is the deliberate engineering of miniature scenery so an animator,…

Stop-motion puppet maintenance is the production work of inspecting, cleaning, repairing and, when necessary,…

Duplicate puppets are camera-matched copies of an approved stop-motion character built so more than one stage…

Paper-built stop-motion puppets use paper or card as the visible character material while retaining the…

Costume engineering for stop-motion puppets is the design and fabrication of miniature clothing that must…

Rapid prototyping is the fabrication process, pioneered by LAIKA starting with Coraline (2009), of building a…

Puppet maintenance is the production discipline of inspecting, repairing, re-tensioning, cleaning and…

Mechanical facial controls are miniature internal mechanisms that let an animator reshape a stop-motion…

Art-department scheduling in stop-motion television is the system that converts an episode order and shooting…

Practical fire effects are in-camera combustion events -- flames, sparks, embers, glowing trails --…

A cast-clay puppet-building method, distinct from the sculpt-clay-onto-a-rigid-skeleton approach used on most…

A replacement face system is a fabrication and performance technique in which a puppet's face is built as an…

An animation table is the raised work surface or shooting stage on which a stop-motion set, puppet, tie-down…

A scaled-down physical environment built for stop-motion or special-effects photography. Miniature sets…

A background in stop motion is the photographed environment around the animated subject: physical set…

Animating fire in stop motion means deciding which evidence of combustion must be controllable frame by frame…

Rehearsal and blocking in stop motion are deliberately simplified test passes made before the final…

Dialogue track reading is the frame-by-frame breakdown of recorded speech into words, phonetic events,…

Motion blur and smear techniques in stop motion are the range of methods animators and cinematographers use…

Performance reference for stop motion is recorded acting, movement or timing material used to communicate a…

How stop-motion animators plan a performance despite the medium's straight-ahead constraint: because a shot…

Animating water in stop motion is the design of liquid shape, surface motion, droplets, spray, waves,…

The workflow, built into Dragonframe's Audio Workspace and X-Sheet, for breaking a pre-recorded dialogue…

An exposure sheet (X-sheet, or dope sheet) is a grid-format planning and record-keeping tool used by…

Lighting flicker control is the discipline of keeping frame-to-frame exposure and illumination stable when…

Flicker control in stop-motion is the discipline of keeping frame-to-frame exposure, illumination and optical…

Multiple-exposure lighting passes are a stop-motion capture method in which one animation frame is…

Miniature lighting is the design of illumination for a frame-by-frame physical set where scale, long…

The DDMX-512 is Dragonframe's hardware interface for the DMX-512 lighting-control protocol: a USB-to-DMX…

Light-source spectrum for stop-motion is the distribution of wavelengths a fixture sends onto puppets and…

Lighting a miniature interior means fitting a working lighting rig inside a set built at puppet scale, often…

Lighting continuity is the practice of making the light in a stop-motion shot repeat frame after frame unless…

Lighting a stop-motion set means building a light rig that can hold its output dead steady across hundreds or…

Mixed-media stop motion combines frame-by-frame photography of physical materials or objects with one or more…

Fluid-frame animation is an under-camera stop-motion approach in which the photographed image is made from…

Multiplane is a set-and-camera technique that separates artwork, cutouts or set elements onto distinct planes…

A sub-type of stop motion in which everyday or found objects serve as the animated subject rather than a…

A brickfilm is stop motion shot with a mass-produced construction-brick system and its companion minifigures…

A stop-motion sub-type in which figures are built and photographed as flat, fully opaque black shapes rather…

Go motion is a stop-motion variant in which a rod puppet, rigged to a motion-control system, is driven a…

A sub-type of stop motion in which flat figures and set pieces -- cut from paper, card, fabric or…

A sub-type of stop motion in which articulated puppet figures — typically built over a poseable armature —…

A sub-type of stop motion in which animated subjects are built from malleable materials — typically…

A stop-motion technique in which live human actors are used as frame-by-frame subjects instead of…

A technique where expression, mouth shape or body parts are swapped between frames instead of deforming a…

Dragonframe's built-in software toolset for shooting and checking stereoscopic (3D) stop motion: an automated…

High-resolution capture in stop motion separates the image used to animate from the image used to finish the…

Bluescreen or greenscreen capture photographs a stop-motion subject against a controlled chroma background so…

Motion control uses a programmable mechanical camera rig to move the camera through a repeatable path during…

Focus pulling in stop motion is the planned change of lens focus through an animated shot, divided across…

Camera and animator access is the production-design problem of making a miniature set photographable while…

Camera movement in stop motion is the frame-by-frame design and execution of a changing camera position or…

Depth of field in miniature cinematography is the controlled range of distance that appears acceptably sharp…

Forced perspective is the deliberate arrangement of camera position, subject distance and set scale so that…

Lens breathing is the apparent change in image size or field of view that occurs when a lens changes focus.…

The set of Dragonframe tools -- the Notepad, and per-take/exposure/frame notes stored in a metadata text file…

Camera-body selection for stop-motion is risk management over a shot that may remain physically locked for…

Dragonframe's Guide Layers panel blends the live camera feed against an already-captured frame (onion skin)…

The bounded set of camera hardware Dragonframe can drive directly from its capture timeline, organised by…

Industry-standard stop-motion animation software for Mac, Windows and Linux, widely used by major studios…

Stop Motion Studio is a consumer and education-market stop-motion app from the US developer Cateater LLC…

Shooting a stop-motion frame twice from two known, fixed-offset camera positions -- one per eye -- so the…

Arc is Dragonframe's motion-control workspace: it maps external hardware -- stepper-driven sliders and…

Stop-motion cinematography carries an inherited convention -- harder, more sculptural, carefully motivated…

Choosing a lens for stop-motion capture is governed by two constraints Dragonframe enforces rather than…

Miniature cinematography is the discipline of photographing small physical subjects so that they read as…

A rigging system distinct from both the tie-down and the flying rig: an articulated arm of stainless-steel…

A flying rig is a rigging system -- typically fine wire or a rod running to an overhead track or off-camera…

A system for anchoring a stop-motion puppet to the animation set between frames, preventing the figure from…

The Shanghai puppet-animation tradition is the stop-motion branch developed within the institution that…

Palestinian stop motion is best understood not as a single studio style but as a distributed practice made by…

Stop-motion history is best understood not as one technological ladder leading from crude puppets to digital…

A global history of stop motion is not a ranking of countries or a single chain of inventions. It is a map of…

"Claymation" is not a generic synonym for clay stop motion -- it is a trademarked name Will Vinton coined for…

Dynamation is the composite-photography process Ray Harryhausen developed out of Willis O'Brien's stop-motion…

Foley for stop-motion animation is the performed recording of footsteps, body movement, props, cloth and…

Sound design for stop motion is the deliberate construction of the audible world around images that were…

In a scripted stop-motion feature, actors record their dialogue in a booth against the finished script before…

Vox pop dialogue is a stop-motion sound technique in which real, unscripted speech -- an interview, an…

Foley in stop-motion is the performed recording of footsteps, handling, cloth, body movement and other…

A cast or sculpted puppet skin is rarely camera-ready on its own. Paint and costume are the two finishing…

Hand-crocheted wool or yarn used as the visible outer body of a stop-motion puppet, wrapped directly over a…

Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) is the injection-moulded plastic that LEGO and other construction-brick…

Solid or carved wood used as the visible outer material of a stop-motion puppet -- distinct from the…

The physical substances a stop-motion production builds with -- armature metal, skin silicone or foam latex,…

The materials layered over a puppet's armature and core to give it a finished outer body -- usually not a…

Materials and construction methods for hair, fur, feathers and other fine, individually-applied fiber…

The internal structure that holds poses between frames, from wire builds to ball-and-socket metal skeletons…

Rig removal is the post-production process of reconstructing the photographed image after visible supports,…

A technique for driving a CG-generated mouth or face replacement on a stop-motion puppet without physically…

Dragonframe's built-in colour management, added in software version 2024.05, uses OpenColorIO (OCIO) -- the…

Rig removal is the post-production work of digitally erasing everything a stop-motion animator needed to…

Adobe After Effects used as the primary compositing and finishing environment for stop-motion…

Digital previsualization, in a stop-motion context, is the practice of modelling a set, camera move, or rig…

A storyboard sequences a script into individual drawn shots before a single frame of animation is exposed; an…

Comparative production practice describes how stop-motion working methods differ between countries,…

A production map is the working table of contents for stop-motion craft: it follows the film from idea,…

Animating on twos means holding each distinct stop-motion pose for two frames of the finished timeline…

Stop motion is a capture method in which a physical subject is changed between individually photographed…

Capture technique is the umbrella term for how a stop-motion production actually records its frame-by-frame…

The glossary is the expandable index of stop-motion terms, job names, tools, materials, workflows and…

In stop-motion, the subject is the physical thing whose position, shape or configuration is changed between…

A poseable figure built for incremental movement, often with an armature, body padding, costume, surface…

Clay, in stop motion, means an oil-based, non-drying modelling compound -- plasticine, not ceramic clay --…

A puppet with internal mechanisms, linkages, paddles or controls that let animators adjust eyes, brows,…