Go motion
Go-Motion is an animation technique that originated in the early 1980s and is a modification of the stop-motion technique.
In stop-motion - animation objects are animated by slight modification for each new image; one shot is photographed for each image in the film. The final sequence, however, loses its natural motion blur , which can cause the animations to appear jerky when the movie is played.
In order to create the necessary blurring effect, the objects are moved by computer-controlled motors in the go-motion process while the camera shutter is open. In this way, the moving parts appear slightly blurred in a natural way.
history
Phil Tippett , who was working for Industrial Light & Magic as an expert for visual effects at the time, was responsible for the development . The computer-controlled apparatus for this was developed by Stuart Ziff , who also worked at ILM. The go-motion technology was first used in 1979 for the AT-ATs in the film Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back (published in 1980) and to a larger extent in 1981 in Der Drachentöter .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bender Verlag online encyclopedia - "Go Motion" article