The Humpty Dumpty Circus

This is the first stop motion made by Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton in 1897. It shows the movement of a toy circus of acrobats and animals like using magic. Smith said that they used his daughter's set of small circus dolls, that had jointed limbs to keep balanced and move.

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The Humpty Dumpty Circus is the first short that used stop motion technique by using jointed limbs dolls to make animation. It absorbs this techniques from filming then improved and applied them in animation well. This skill makes things vivid. When people are watching it, they will feel there is a kind of magic to make dolls move. The Humpty Dumpty Circus created a new way for conducting animation. After this short showed, a …show more content…
It is an informal term. The shape of the clay changes radically as the animation progresses in this form. Also, clay can take the form of "character" clay animation, where the clay maintains a recognizable character throughout a shot.
Then is strata-cut animation.To conduct this such a stop motion, a long bread-like loaf of clay will be used. And the inside of this kind of clay is packed tight and loaded with varying imagery, is sliced into thin sheets, with the camera taking a frame of the end of the loaf for each cut, eventually revealing the movement of the internal images within.
Another is clay painting, in which clay is placed on a flat surface and moved like wet oil paints to produce any style of images, but with a clay look to them.
The form "hot set" is used among animation artists during production. The clay characters are set in a designed position in this form. If an animator calls his set a "hot set," then everyone can not touch the set or do something else that might ruin the scenes. Besides, if scenes are left unfinished and the weather is humid, then the set and characters will become different. To avoid this, scenes generally are shot in one day or even