5. Stop-Motion or Claymation animation

With stop-motion animation, you set up a clay model or some other kind of model, then take a photograph and store the image. Then alter the model slightly such as moving an arm, leg, face and so on, then take another image.

Carry on doing this until the whole story has been told. You will now have a complete set of images.

In a professional film such as Wallace and Gromit at 24 frames per second, a 1 hour animation takes 86 thousand images - extremely hard work!

The whole set of images are then compiled into a movie.

In the clip below, we created a simple animated clay snake and kept taking pictures of it to make it move.

It is in MP4 format which Windows Media Player is able to play.

Sometimes, instead of using clay etc, a real person is photographed frame by frame, they adjust their body slightly each time. This method is called pixilation.