Abstract: Stop motion animation is one of the unique applications that has taken its place in the history of cinema radically. Surprisingly, stop motion animations have gone down in the history of art with some primitive and mechanical methods like Zoetrope and similar ones long before the invention of the cinema. Its samples that are created with today's perspective date back to 1930's and the directors continue to apply and the audience watches accordingly with the same interest today, just like in the past. Even though stop motion animations seem like obsolete at first sight, they are still used for commercials. However, the photography discipline, which has a deep relation with the cinema, is an effective factor for stop motion animations. Because stop motion animation is recorded by the camera. The first trait to shoot a stop motion animation is patience. It takes so much patience that an animator takes hundreds of shots for a scene which will be watched for two seconds by the audience in some cases and she/he makes changes on the figure as it requires. This leads to distraction or having a low opinion on the composition of the film on which the animator works. However, we could not expect success from stop motion films that are created without paying attention to the structural elements and composition rules of the photograph. The objective of this study is to examine and identify importance and necessity of the composition applications for the stop motion animations in a historical and aesthetical manner.
Keywords: Stop motion animation, photography, composition, design.
Title: The Importance of Composition in the Context of Stop-Motion Animation Aesthetics
Author: Hami Onur Bingöl
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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