PICTURE COMMENTARY

PICTURE COMMENTARY

Within this picture, I see an element of nostalgia which exists within contemporary creatives. I personally find that making physical stop motion puppets rather than digitally rendered ones has a charm, especially when they are done using the facilities available now. For example, the armature in this photograph has clearly had silicone or a similar material moulded onto it and painted, making it an effective and realistic puppet for stop motion. The character's clothes and props were also clearly hand crafted and the end result is impressive.

Further use of this sense of nostalgia especially within film can be seen with Directors like Wes Anderson, whose stop motion films make the audience embrace the medium rather than make these animations look as realistic as possible. Therefore, despite the rapidly growing facilities in computer animation, people still look back at the old ways of doing things because they have a very distinctive aesthetic which some would prefer to modern methods.