The Stop-Motion Animation Appreciation Society

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Welcome to The Stop-Motion Animation Appreciation Society. This is a place for anyone who enjoys stop-motion animation or is interested in stop-motion animation techniques. 

We also research Japanese and Korean stop-motion animation so it can be added to MAL's database.

The club spreadsheet for anime relations provides more information on types of stop-motion and legal sources.

History of the Club

This was originally made because MAL's moderators and administrators wanted to remove all stop-motion animation entries from the database. This club was set up as a petition against that, as we felt that stop-motion animation has a right to be considered "anime" if it came from Japan or Korea.

One of MAL's database administrators (Kineta) then gave us the offer of keeping stop-motion animation on the database if we researched these stop-motion animations and we showed them the wide variety of stop-motion out there so that MAL could become a place where you can find out about individual stop-motion works.

So we decided to accept this offer and started researching various stop-motion animations to submit. After researching and submitting a number of stop-motion animations, we managed to convince the mods to keep stop-motion animation on MAL, as long as it complied with the rest of the guidelines which all anime have to meet in order to get accepted into the database.

That was the story of how this club came into existence.

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Sticky: Spreadsheet, interest stacks and the relations list Feorg - May 11	8 replies	by Cleome »» May 14, 8:34 PM
Reviews and recommendations Feorg - Jul 23, 2023	6 replies	by ooReiko »» May 11, 9:44 AM
Tadanari Okamoto and Kihachiro Kawamoto Harukasan - May 5	1 replies	by Feorg »» May 6, 11:02 AM
How to recognize stop-motion Feorg - Aug 11, 2023	0 replies	by Feorg »» Aug 11, 2023 11:49 AM
SMA Relations List TsukikageRan - Dec 1, 2011	2 replies	by lanblade »» Feb 1, 2014 12:28 PM

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Feorg | May 11, 11:11 AM

Ah yes, I see, it does look like stop motion in Guskov. But it's such a short clip in a long movie that I'll have to consider it. It's difficult to decide how much SMA there needs to be for a title to be interesting to club members, but if it's less than 10% of the running time, then it might not qualify.

Nekome Kozou does look like it was made with paper cutouts, but they're hardly moving, the movement effect looks like it was either someone moving it live or just the camera. It doesn't have that slightly unsteady feel of stop-motion, so I believe it wasn't shot frame by frame.

ooReiko | May 11, 10:46 AM

In Guskov the Stop Motion part is around 57 - 58 min mark. Also about Nekome Kozou if im not mistaken the series is done with Paper cutouts as characters im not sure if that fits here but thats atleast what it looks like to me.

Feorg | May 11, 10:39 AM

Most of those seem to have live action rather than stop-motion. I didn't find the stop-motion part in Guskou Budori no Denki, but I'll have a better look later when I have time. Kyouryuu Tankentai Born Free did have stop-motion in the dinosaur movements, so I'll add it to the relations.

ooReiko | May 11, 9:34 AM

I saw you made the stacks so I came here

Your thoughts regarding these series?

https://myanimelist.net/anime/23351/Youkaiden_Nekome_Kozou?q=nekome&cat=anime
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9978/Kyouryuu_Tankentai_Born_Free
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10965/Kagaku_Bouken-tai_Tansar_5
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4073/Kyouryuu_Daisensou_Izenborg

Also there is section of what I think is stop motion in this film

https://myanimelist.net/anime/13215/Guskou_Budori_no_Denki_2012?q=guskov&cat=anime

spiritgun01 | May 5, 1:08 PM

That spreadsheet is insane! Thanks so much

IridescentJaune | May 5, 3:58 AM

Thanks for making and sharing the spreadsheet!

Feorg | Apr 30, 5:22 AM

Club spreadsheet for anime relations. I was pretty surprised that most of the entries are available on youtube or equivalent sites, but I guess it's because so much of it is non-commercial or simply old.

Feorg | Apr 24, 9:46 AM

Three short films from Geidai Animation (Tokyo University of Arts), and an additional one from their graduate:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/52230/Blink_in_the_Desert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn7T0r6GQ0s

https://myanimelist.net/anime/52743/Cairn_no_Kubi-tachi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ7iNELjVpE

https://myanimelist.net/anime/53601/Shoujo_no_Ito_Mahou_no_Ito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Jh4pETrOE

https://myanimelist.net/anime/50751/Sumikko_no_Ko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-Lly_U7iDU

Club Stats

Members: 321

Pictures: 5

Category: Other

Created: Oct 21, 2009

Club Staff

Rosa_FOEtida (President)

Feorg (Secretary)

lanblade (Secretary)

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Anyone can join and invite others to join. Club details, pictures, comments and club discussions can be viewed by any user, regardless of whether they are a member of the club or not.

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