Photographing real-world objects frame by frame to create motion is typically called what?

• A. Stop Motion Animation
• B. Object Animation (Technique)
• C. Paper Animation
• D. Flip Cards

Answer: (A)

Stop-motion animation is the technique of photographing real-world objects frame by frame to create movement. You set up a scene, take a photo, move the objects a little, take another photo, and repeat. When the sequence of photographs is played back at a normal frame rate, the objects appear to move, even though each frame is a separate photograph. This method relies on physical objects and real-world photography, distinguishing it from hand-drawn or computer-generated animation. Other terms describe different ideas—paper animation uses drawings on paper, flip cards imply a quick flipping illusion, and a generic object animation could refer to various approaches—so they don’t specify the frame-by-frame photographic process that defines stop-motion.