Object Animation
Stop-Motion Animation First Began in film as film makers were experimenting with using one frame by frame using their video camera. Stop-Motion animation requires the animator to use an object (when using object animation) and take a frame of film of then slightly move it and take another frame, repeating this process and in the final film the object will look like it is moving and is living. The technique was first invented by Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton when they created The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1897), The used Ready Made objects, such as toys as they were basic and easy to use in dong this it became the first form of object and stop animation. over time more Stop Motion developed As artists began to use more complex and dynamic versions of animation in years to come. One of the first successful film using this technique was Fun in a Bakery Shop (1902) by Thomas Edison, he used the Stop-Trick Technique when he made a sculpture out of dough which could've lead to the inspiration of the first forms of clay animation years later. stop-trick Animation was when people make something that seems faster than it actually is using editing and stop motion. Within the techniques they edited it so that big chunks of footage was purposely missing, which made the artist seem like he is sculpting faster than how it actually took. This technique was seen to be inspirational in film for using real life actors in stop-motion, the earliest form of pixelated stop-motion.

Fun In a Bakery Shop (1902)







Clay Animation 


Two years after the invention of Object animation Two artists properly introduced Clay Animation, as Willie Hopkins Created 54 episodes of "miracles in Mud (1916) (note: Will find video if Can) in how he did this was by modelling clay in to objects or characters or sets and making them move similar to object animation yet they are different because clay animation is more easier to create people-like characters, this process is similar to object animation on forms of filming where a frame is shot and the objects are slightly moved and another frame is taken, but with clay animation the most famous use in film is when a figure is shown being built quickly from mud or when a figure melts.  From this in December 1916 The first female Animator Helena Smith as she pushed the ideas, techniques and experimentation by making a clay animation adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet". In the 1960's and the 70's Elliot Noyes Jr. Refined "Free-Form" Clay animation when he created his Oscar Nominated Film Clay or the origin of species. Below is an example of Clay Animation in it's famous form of Wallace and Gromit Created by Aardman.

Wallace and Gromit - The Wrong Trousers 

Puppet Animation

Around the time of clay animation, Willis O'Brian worked on The Famous King Kong (1933) film, which was a mixture of clay animation and influencing artists into Puppet Animation. This began Sand-coated Puppet Animation which was featured in the 1977 film The Sandcastle. King Kong needed Puppet animation, as he was a large model and parts would most likely fall and they needed his arms and legs to move around, therefore they created a model (or puppet) that could move, was sturdy and could Complete its purposes while being able to allow is parts to be moved at will.  To do Puppet animation was in a similar way to clay animation where it was done frame by frame, while moving the object slightly, but because it was a puppet, this allowed moving the object easier and accurately. this was a technique that became widely popular and was also used in the movie Jason and the Argonauts. this technique was also widely popular on children's television as there are lots of programs that use puppet animation such as
Bagpuss






Pixelation Animation
In 1980 Disney began experimenting with new techniques in film and media, which they hired Mike Jittlov who worked with them previously in Mouse Mania which was a stop motion film using mickey mouse toys. and also worked on the promotion of the film The Black Hole which again featured his stop motion work. But some time later he created his own feature length film which featured all animation techniques, but the most frequent and remembered was his use of pixelation animation, which he used to make him seem like he was running around the country at incredible speeds when really he has just edited it so it seems hat way using pixelation animation.  since then there has been a few instances of pixelation one of these is the The Secret Adventures Of Tom Thumb which was featured totally of pixelation animation, Here is a clip from The Secret Adventures Of Tom Thumb.