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  • "It's as if evolution is caught in one vital moment, a stop-action snapshot of evolution in action," said paleoanthropologist Richard Potts, director of the Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program, who wasn't involved in the discoveries.

    Fossil Trove Sheds Light On a Stage of Evolution Robert Lee Hotz 2011

  • Semmel states that her intention is to "subvert the tradition of passive female nudes" but in pursuit of this goal, she invokes female identity and fashions images that recall stop-action photography.

    Alexander Adler: Joan Semmel Paintings Alexander Adler 2011

  • Susan Silas: eyes wide shut| Silas will present selected works from "eyes wide shut, 2010", a portfolio of 24 images from her series "found birds, 2000 - the present"; as well as "embrace", a stop-action HD-video animation.

    Bill Bush: The Tawdry Three-Ring Circus of Venice: This Artweek.LA (April 4-10) Bill Bush 2011

  • Susan Silas: eyes wide shut| Silas will present selected works from "eyes wide shut, 2010", a portfolio of 24 images from her series "found birds, 2000 - the present"; as well as "embrace", a stop-action HD-video animation.

    Bill Bush: The Tawdry Three-Ring Circus of Venice: This Artweek.LA (April 4-10) Bill Bush 2011

  • Susan Silas: eyes wide shut| Silas will present selected works from "eyes wide shut, 2010", a portfolio of 24 images from her series "found birds, 2000 - the present"; as well as "embrace", a stop-action HD-video animation.

    Bill Bush: The Tawdry Three-Ring Circus of Venice: This Artweek.LA (April 4-10) Bill Bush 2011

  • With movie references ranging from Braveheart to Zulu, it's a stop-action puppet film featuring some of the British cinema's most distinctive voices, in which Churchill (Timothy Spall) withdraws to Hadrian's Wall for a final showdown with the Nazis after defeat in the Battle of Britain.

    Jackboots on Whitehall – review Philip French 2010

  • Interesting that the movie adaptation of James and the Giant Peach, which is very good, is also stop-action.

    Lance Mannion: 2010

  • Interesting that the movie adaptation of James and the Giant Peach, which is very good, is also stop-action.

    Wes Anderson: Its rare when you have the chance to say I have an idea for a cloud 2010

  • Shown in competition at Cannes as Panique au village, this feature-length, French, stop-action animated film is a sort of highly eccentric, not to say whimsical, Gallic Wallace & Gromit, centring on the adventures around the world and under the sea of three toys – an Indian, a cowboy and a talking horse, who's twice as smart as the other two.

    A Town Called Panic – review Philip French 2010

  • Susan Silas: eyes wide shut| Silas will present selected works from "eyes wide shut, 2010", a portfolio of 24 images from her series "found birds, 2000 - the present"; as well as "embrace", a stop-action HD-video animation.

    Bill Bush: The Tawdry Three-Ring Circus of Venice: This Artweek.LA (April 4-10) Bill Bush 2011

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  • alternate form of stop-motion

    February 28, 2014

  • We could just standardise it as stop-__tion.

    March 1, 2014