Stop Motion Animation

Stop motion animation (also known as stop frame animation) is an animation technique that captures one frame at a time, by physically moving objects between frames. The illusion of movement is created when you play back the sequence of images quickly. Stop motion is very similar to 2D animation (early Disney) where each frame is drawn differently to create movement between each frame. Stop motion is similar except it uses physical objects instead of drawings ("Introduction To Stop Motion Animation | Dragonframe"). Here is a helpful video for how stop animation works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVjMFU11hVA

Stop motion is very popular, it can be seen in numerous areas of the media, such as music videos, advertisements, shows, YouTube and feature films ("Introduction To Stop Motion Animation | Dragonframe"). It is common for people to think that there is only one style of stop motion but there is actually a wide range of techniques and styles to create stop motion animation. 

Here are some well animated stop motion animations, some of them took very different approaches in creating their animation.

"Stop Motion Animation. Magic Water": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSzCLf8tjP4

"Stop Motion Animation - The Missing Stickman": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijwy8XFC4wg

"Stop Motion | Whiteboard Animation: The Marker Maker": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vZ0iqUS6sg

"Maker vs Marker 1": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N45VYUcYu90

And here is an interesting upcoming 3D stop motion fantasy film, Kubo and the Two Stings (Trailer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4-6qJzeb3A

References:
"Introduction To Stop Motion Animation | Dragonframe". Dragonframe.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 19 Apr. 2016.

VFX Visual Effects

In film making, visual effects (abbreviated VFX) is a way of mixing false or animated images with real film shooting. There are many examples, for instance when a movie shows a hero jumping off the ground and flying through the air, or when a character performs things that are impossible to perform. The Avengers Movie is a very good example of vfx, a lot of the action scenes are created with visual effects. The visual effects are incredible in this movie and takes a lot, I mean a lot of time to create. Here are 2 videos which show some of the visual effects: 

The majority of films today use a lot of visual effects as it helps create an environment which looks realistic, but would be too dangerous, expensive and impractical to capture on film. Visual effects have become very important in the filming industry as it often becomes integral to a movie's narrative and appeal. Visual effects is often applied after post-production but it is carefully planned in pre-production and production. The visual effects is led by a visual effects supervisor and is usually involved closely to the director and the production of a film, as this helps guide and lead the visual effects teams to produce what is desired for the film. Another really great movie that uses special effects is the film, Jurassic World: