stop-motion
noun
stop-mo·tion
ˈstäp-ˈmō-shən 
often attributive
: a filming technique in which successive positions of objects (such as clay models) are photographed to produce the appearance of movement
Examples of stop-motion in a Sentence
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Fairfax has become one of the nation’s top beaver evangelists, gaining fans with her stop-motion animation video showing how beaver wetlands can slow the intensity of wildfire, and for her concept of Smokey the Beaver as a counterpart to the Fire Service’s ursine poster child for fire suppression.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
From the World of Minor Threats: Barfly teams up the duo, who created Hulu’s stop-motion Marvel series M.O.D.O.K., with comics author Kyle Starks and artist Ryan Browne, the illustrator of indie hit Eight Billion Genies.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2024
Sora is above and beyond any current AI video generators, which feel more like stop-motion reels than true videos.
—Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
Everything's gone stop-motion in Abed's eyes, a hallucination requiring a therapeutic trip to the North Pole.
—Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
But by the time of ‘My Father’s Dragon,’ Netflix also had its ‘Pinocchio’ stop-motion movie and there were so many other great films.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
Following the death of her overbearing mother, a stop-motion animator (Aisling Franciosi) creates macabre puppets for a new movie about a scared girl being hunted by a dark figure and is driven mad when the creepy characters come to terrifying life.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
Basically, the movie does for directing stop-motion animation what The Shining did for writing a novel.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2024
There’s documentaries, there’s puppetry, there’s yarn stop-motion.
—Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
From the World of Minor Threats: Barfly teams up the duo, who created Hulu’s stop-motion Marvel series M.O.D.O.K., with comics author Kyle Starks and artist Ryan Browne, the illustrator of indie hit Eight Billion Genies.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2024
Sora is above and beyond any current AI video generators, which feel more like stop-motion reels than true videos.
—Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
Everything's gone stop-motion in Abed's eyes, a hallucination requiring a therapeutic trip to the North Pole.
—Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
But by the time of ‘My Father’s Dragon,’ Netflix also had its ‘Pinocchio’ stop-motion movie and there were so many other great films.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
Following the death of her overbearing mother, a stop-motion animator (Aisling Franciosi) creates macabre puppets for a new movie about a scared girl being hunted by a dark figure and is driven mad when the creepy characters come to terrifying life.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
Basically, the movie does for directing stop-motion animation what The Shining did for writing a novel.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2024
There’s documentaries, there’s puppetry, there’s yarn stop-motion.
—Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
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“Stop-motion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stop-motion. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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