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
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The video combines stop-motion puppetry re-creating the MDR team’s movements with recordings of their actual conversations, signaling to the refiners that they were being monitored the entire time.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2025
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🍿 Movies: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is the latest film in the stop-motion animation series.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
Both Feathers and Tweedy may be giants in the stop-motion antagonist world, but who’s the worst and, most importantly, who would win in a fight?
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
The series is the first stop-motion project produced by Toruku, a subsidiary of powerhouse anime company WIT Studio (Attack on Titan, Spy × Family).
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2025
Weekend picks Netflix Check out what NPR is watching, reading and listening to this weekend:
🍿 Movies: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is the latest film in the stop-motion animation series.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
Both Feathers and Tweedy may be giants in the stop-motion antagonist world, but who’s the worst and, most importantly, who would win in a fight?
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
The series is the first stop-motion project produced by Toruku, a subsidiary of powerhouse anime company WIT Studio (Attack on Titan, Spy × Family).
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Stop-motion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stop-motion. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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