"stop motion" vs. "stopping motion"
virividox said:
...(assuming what your trying to do is like showing a bullet pop a baloon or that sort of thing).
I think "Stop Motion" means a kind of animation done with models. You move them and then take one frames, move them again, take another frame. For this kind of work you need a very masive and studry camera support. If the camera moves even the slightest because it is bumped or someone kicks the stand you can loos hours of work.
For "Stopping motion" like the bullet. Heck you can hand hold the camera. The exposure is so short that motion is stopped. But for that you need some exotic stobes.
The Tim Buton film "corpse Bride" was done with Canon DSLR cameras and models. They shot the whole feature film one frame at a time with a still camera. They call it "stop motion" because the motion is "stopped" when the exposure is taken. With a normal movie camera the actors are in motion while the shutter is open and you always get slight motion blur.
Stop Motion can bedone with live actors too. We did a short that way once. You have the actor move an inch, take a frame, move an inch, take a frame and so on for hours. When you are done you can have some "impossable" footage like someone sliding face first over rough ground and leaving a plowed rut in his wake. Or maybe "surfing" up a flight of stairs.
