Why is stop motion not as big as it should be?
Personally, I am a huge fan of stop motion animation. I love the movie Coraline so much, as well as Para-norman, Chicken Run, and all of those interesting films. I also saw the
trnka shorts (Early Years) at Cornell Cinema which featured many stop motion shorts which were very amusing. My question is however, why is stop motion not as big as it should be? Every few years a new movie will come out to nationwide cinemas that happens to be stop motion, and it always gets rave reviews. Almost every stop motion film that was in Hollywood I can think of have gotten great reviews! So why are not more stop motion films being produced? Partially I think the time of creation might be a huge aspect, saying it takes so much work to produce one of these films, but honestly so do other movies. I think the thing that makes these movies so compelling is that as each scene appears on the screen, you know that this is someone's art on screen. Yes, that happens with every piece of cinema, but with stop motion I feel as if the audience is more aware that it is such a wonder and artistic vision as they watch it, as opposed to non-stop motion films. Is this possibly why they get more positive reviews? If so, why don't more people produce these films? I think this is super interesting to look at and was wondering what other people have to say about this topic.
trnka shorts (Early Years) at Cornell Cinema which featured many stop motion shorts which were very amusing. My question is however, why is stop motion not as big as it should be? Every few years a new movie will come out to nationwide cinemas that happens to be stop motion, and it always gets rave reviews. Almost every stop motion film that was in Hollywood I can think of have gotten great reviews! So why are not more stop motion films being produced? Partially I think the time of creation might be a huge aspect, saying it takes so much work to produce one of these films, but honestly so do other movies. I think the thing that makes these movies so compelling is that as each scene appears on the screen, you know that this is someone's art on screen. Yes, that happens with every piece of cinema, but with stop motion I feel as if the audience is more aware that it is such a wonder and artistic vision as they watch it, as opposed to non-stop motion films. Is this possibly why they get more positive reviews? If so, why don't more people produce these films? I think this is super interesting to look at and was wondering what other people have to say about this topic.
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