Post #2 - 5th Six Weeks

Stop motion (also known as stop action) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own.  The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence.  Stop motion photography is used to observe diurnal motion . Dominating children's TV stop motion programming for three decades in America was Art Clokey's Gumby series—which spawned a feature film, Gumby I in 1995—using both free form and character clay animation. In the 1970s and 1980s,  Industrial Light & Magic often used stop motion model animation for films such as the original Star Wars trilogy: the chess sequence in Star Wars the Tauntauns and AT-AT walkers in, The Empire Strikes Back and the AT-ST walkers in  Return of the Jedi were all stop motion animation, some of it using the Go films.