stop-motion

stop-motion

See also: stop motion

English

Alternative forms

• (animation technique): stop motion

Noun

stop-motion (countable and uncountable, plural stop-motions)

1. (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:

     Jan Švankmajer’s stop-motion looks angry, rough, and primal; Henry Selick’s is so polished and smooth that it resembles CGI.

2. (countable) A device used for automatically stopping a machine or engine when a fault or error is detected.[1]

Translations

animation technique

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: stop motion

French: animation en volume (fr) f Japanese: 齣撮り (こまどり, komadori) Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: cuadro por cuadro, fotograma a fotograma

References

1. 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)

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