Omniya Tajni P1: Explain the different techniques for animations using examples of your choice to support. Stop Motion Animation This is a cinematographic technique where the camera is repeatedly stopped and started. To make this animation you shoot one still frame, move the characters slightly, then shoot another and then repeat it the amount of times you want in order to make a little animation. While each individual frame may not be so tough, the overall effort is massive. George Melies accidentally identified this technique when his camera jammed but it was not fully recognised as much as it is now. The first stop motion animation to be made was by J. Stuart Blackton & Albert E. Smith for Vitagraph's The Humpty Dumpty Circus and this was released in 1898. The main software packages individuals use to make stop motion animation is called Animator HD. In the 1870's, Leland Stanford began a debate about whether all four feet of a trotting horse are ever off t...