Photographic Stills

Photographic stills are also known as stop-motion animations, this is the method of making still objects seem as if they are moving, this is done by taking a photograph of a still object, moving it a little, then taking another photograph and so on, then the photographs are played in a sequence and it gives the illusion of a moving object.

Dolls and clay are often used in this type of animation as they are easy to reposition, this type of animation using clay is often called claymation.

The stop-motion technique was first credited to the stop-motion animation The Humpty Dumpty Circus in 1897 which was created by Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton.