A Collection of Data Gathered- Stop Motion Part 1

So right now I have been focusing on one specific type of animating: stop-motion animations. Currently, right now, I feel that stop-motion animation is not being used as often as it was when it first came out because of the discovery of digital animation. I bet that most producers/ directors/ animators are leaning more towards digital animation because it requires less time and less effort and looks very professional. Now I'm not saying that stop-motion is bad...or that it is a waste of time and effort. Personally, I have a hard time deciding which I prefer of the two because digital animation is really very smooth and looks very professional, but it doesn't show the rough edges and mistakes as much as stop-motion does. Yes...I know what you're probably thinking right now...why would someone want to show their mistakes? Doesn't make sense to me...and you would be correct. I honestly do not like showing my mistakes in my work, but to quote the words of Peter Lord of Aardman Animations, "Stop-frame is like live music, played on traditional instruments, compared to studio recording using the finest instruments in the world, all the latest technology and some electronic instruments. The latter is more polished, more perfect, bigger, better, showier–but maybe lacks humanity. Stop-frame is much less perfect, mush less polished, unrepeatable, inaccurate–in a word, human. It all depends on whether the audience care or not about humanity." I agree with Mr. Lord. I feel that stop-animation reflects more of the animator's efforts, his time spent on perfecting and creating each piece of the set to the best of his ability. In saying this, I am not saying that digital animation reflects the animators laziness, his unwillingness to want to create his pieces by hand, because it doesn't. It takes extreme amounts of effort, hours and hours of one's time...I've experienced it firsthand. But comparing stop-motion to digital animation would be like comparing a human to a robot/ a cyborg. Humans flaws show that they are human. If a robot had a flaw, then a scientist could just fix it. (okay, now I'm really off topic here...)

-A picture of Peter Lord of Aardman Animations