STOP MOTION ANIMATION CAMERA MOVEMENTS Since almost the dawn of the motion picture business, there are somewhat standard camera movement terminology & descriptions used In live action cinematography and carried over into videography. The camera is physically moved while shooting certain scenes .... either hand held camera (cinema verite, documentary style) or camera affixed to tripods with geared heads or mounted to other camera moving devices. Moving the camera is very much an artistic-creative decision. IMO, too much camera movement is a distraction and sometimes used to show-off or impress. No hard and fast rule about moving a camera. There are plethora of books that you can Google about cinema techniques and creative theories. Camera movements also applicable to Stop
Motion, however the difference is, you will be animating
the camera movements frame by frame at the same
time the puppets are animated. Camera movements can be
done by computer motion control or the ol'
fashioned way of just manually moving the camera
a frame at a time. Anyway .... if you are confused about
the terms used to described the camera movements ....
look at this and forever be informed and you
will impress people
For STOP
MOTION, some devices & tools similar
to what you see here below for mounting your camera to
and then achieve frame by frame camera movement control
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