#go motion

Something struck me about this scene: It's stop motion that has motion blur. It's been given the name "Go Motion", and there are a couple of different ways of achieving this, some old-fashioned techniques include "bumping" (a person nudges the model at the right time), or smearing petroleum jelly over the lens to match the areas that should be blurred. Modern programmable puppets can be linked to the camera shutter and move while the photo is taken.

In the sequence shown above, the train, Gromit, and the camera are all moved in sync over a 1-2 second exposure creating the extreme blur of the background.

The Mascot (1933) dir. Wladyslaw Starewicz

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This is what full body velociraptors in Jurassic Park could’ve looked like before Steven Spielberg decided to go the CGI route.