stop-motion
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See also: stop motion
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (animation technique): stop motion
Noun[edit]
stop-motion (countable and uncountable, plural stop-motions)
- (uncountable, photography) An animation technique wherein physical objects are slightly altered and photographed one picture at a time to give an illusion of movement when displayed in sequence.
- 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- Jan Švankmajer’s stop-motion looks angry, rough, and primal; Henry Selick’s is so polished and smooth that it resembles CGI.
- (countable) A device used for automatically stopping a machine or engine when a fault or error is detected.[1]
Translations[edit]
animation technique
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References[edit]
- ^ stop, combinations section (Comb.), stop-motion a device for automatically stopping a machine or engine when something has gone wrong (The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Clarendon Press, Oxford, Vol. 2 N-Z, 1993 edition, see page 3,074)