Ranking the Best of Stop Motion Animation (Animat Top 50 Project)
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- Опубліковано 7 кві 2024
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I greatly appreciate stop-motion for all the work that shows, and I can only imagine how lengthy it can be as a process, which makes me appreciate it all the more. I have two particular favorites. One is Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, which is definitely a film I greatly enjoyed from my childhood, and while it's very light-hearted in many ways, I do really appreciate its dark atmosphere, which really adds a lot, and I greatly appreciate that contrast. The other stop-motion film that is a big highlight for me is Coraline, which has slowly become one of my favorite films of all time. The presentation is superb, but the story is so engaging to me, and I greatly connect with the themes of deception and the choices that can be made to escape it. One thing that doesn't seem to get talked about much is the music, which is honestly one of my favorite film scores ever. Yes, I still could have done without the out of place theater scene, but it's still a great film overall, and I was able to get a blu-ray copy of it last year, which is a fine addition to my physical media collection.
I also enjoy pretty much every other stop-motion film from Aardman, as well as Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio, Kubo And The Two Strings, and The Boxtrolls, and I still find that last one to be very underrated. To be honest though, despite how much I appreciate the art form, there are a number of stop-motion films I do find to be very overrated. Honestly, The Nightmare Before Christmas never fully clicked with me, although I admire the aesthetic. I find James And The Giant Peach to be tonally all over the place, and I find the musical numbers to be weak. The anti-bullying message of ParaNorman is admirable, but the rest of the film didn't stand out to me. I somewhat have an appreciation for Anomalisa, but it's about 50% facinating and 50% frustrating in terms of its storytelling and themes. But at the same time, because of all the work that goes into stop-motion, part of me doesn't want to look at it as critically, but it is all subjective. Maybe it's just more disappointing to me when a film has great stop-motion but not a story that engages me (looking at you, Missing Link). Still, it really feels like an event when a new stop-motion film of quality is released.
Stop Motion's always my favourite medium of art and animation
It's so great!
Ahh, stop-motion. An underrated art medium, like AniMat said, but definitely a wonderful art form, like you said… but also a very harder and lengthier process than 2D and computer animation. 😂 Plus, stop-motion isn’t just clay, it can apply itself to other objects like Lego videos, especially the ones by Michael Hickox, utilizes stop-motion. Same with similar videos that use action figures or plush animals. Animated cut-out pictures or construction paper are examples of stop-motion. Moving household objects and sometimes even giving them personality or making them into unique creatures is another form of stop-motion. Literally anything can be stop-motion and all it needs to really feel alive is great imagination.
So much creativity! I like how different our lists were for this one
@@RachelsReviews Very good choices! Fun fact: It was actually Wallace & Gromit’s feature film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit that introduced me to the iconic Britain stop-motion duo as a kid growing up in the 2000s and it really was a great one. Don’t worry, I saw the shorts too later on, but I do feel like Curse of the Were-Rabbit is one of those films based on a cartoon where you can easily get invested in even if for those who haven’t seen the shorts and still get an idea of Wallace & Gromit’s personalities and their relationship. In short, it’s one of those films that can definitely be watched on its own even without seeing the shorts, which does for me put above many other films based on cartoons where sometimes a major flaw they can have for viewers who haven’t seen any episodes of the respective cartoon is that some plot elements can be hard to follow without seeing any episodes and having some context or knowledge to understand them better.
It's true. I like it is stand alone
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