Stop-motion Research Articles

Basicstudy on sports shoe designing for stopping motion

Basicstudy on sports shoe designing for stopping motion

Effects of Intensity and set Method on iEMG of Flexor Carpi Ulnaris and Performance speed Decrease Point during barbell Curl exercise

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of repetition time changes during barbell curl exercise on EMG responses. In this study, the subjects were selected from twelve men in their twenties who had more than 3 years of resistance exercise experience. In this case, the subjects were randomly assigned to three conditions at intervals of one week with different rest interval and intensity (50%1RM/1min, 70%1RM/2min, 90%1RM/3min). When each condition was performed, each one repetition time and iEMG of the agonist were measured and reviewed. In each instance, a statistical analysis was performed by repeated measures of two-way ANOVA, with a p value=.05. In the review of the results of this study, iEMG of flexor carpi ulnaris during the performance of the barbell curl movement increased significantly with the occurrence of performance speed decrease point in all intensity,. and was significantly noted with the progression of the set only at 50%1RM and 70%1RM. The point of occurrence of repetition speed decrease point was significantly different according to exercise intensity. Generally speaking, the heavier the weight, the closer was the point of performance speed decrease point and the end of exercise. To that end, the point of occurrence of performance speed decrease point according to the set also showed a significant difference. In this case, as the set progressed, there was a tendency that the point of performance speed decrease point was close to the point of stopping motion. There In conclusion, it is important to consider the fatigue facstor associated with decreased performance during resistance exercise, and the important role of a supporter should be considered and utilized when exercise speed is decreased as an exercise set progresses during a regimen.

Arte Digital y Stop Motion como práctica interdisciplinar en apoyo a la Formación Inicial Docente

La asignatura Lenguaje y Expresión Artístico Visual y su Didáctica, incorporada en la línea de formación general de la carrera de Educación Básica de la Escuela de Educación de la Universidad de Concepción Campus Los Ángeles, pretende fortalecer la práctica pedagógica y las metodologías artísticas del futuro profesorado. El presente artículo se constituye en una reflexión acerca de las prácticas interdisciplinares relacionados con el arte digital que deriva en una propuesta visual con apoyo del Stop Motion, desarrollada en el contexto de los paradigmas y transformaciones educativas relacionadas con la Formación Inicial Docente desde la investigación cualitativa que considera el estudio de casos hasta el enfoque de un diseño transversal. Los resultados y conclusiones amplían la enseñanza de las artes visuales desde la mirada de los artistas-estudiantes/profesores-artistas, donde cada una de sus capacidades fomentan la creación digital autónoma y una experiencia artística emancipadora.

Study on Stop Motion Animation-based Game Development with Animation Intellectual Property – Focused on Shooting Game based on KBS 1TV 〈Galaxy Kids〉

Game companies spend years researching and developing games they release into the market, only to have it copied1 just days after its release. The issue of piracy and similar games being released into the market results in significant losses for many game companies. In this study, 〈Cuphead〉, a run and gun action game2 that incorporates trained 2D animators in order to have a unique style, was used to analyze the effects of unique design and illustration, which prevents others from copying its contents. The study used 〈Cuphead〉 as a key model to plan a successful strategy for the development of the shooting game 〈Galaxy Kids〉.

The Impact of Student-Constructed Animation on Middle School Students’ Learning about Plate Tectonics

There is a need for research-informed instructional approaches that promote school students’ deep conceptual understanding of abstract geological concepts. Given that a type of learner-constructed stop-motion animation, ‘slowmation’, has been shown to offer affordances for learning in science preservice teacher education, we extended its application to middle school students and investigated the impact of the construction process on students’ learning about plate tectonics. Drawing upon theoretical notions of knowledge reconstruction, this mixed methods case study explored two research questions that concerned the extent to which the slowmation construction process influenced students’ conceptual understanding about plate tectonics and how students’ learning was facilitated by the slowmation construction process. The participants were ninth grade students (n = 52) who constructed slowmations in small groups to explain the geological processes that occur at tectonic plate boundaries. Data were generated using a two-tiered multiple-choice test instrument, the GeoQuiz, which we designed and validated, and audio-recordings of students working together as they researched, planned, and constructed their slowmations. A significant improvement was found in students’ GeoQuiz scores, from pretest to posttest, which indicates their conceptual understanding improved over the course of the construction process. Analysis of the qualitative data found that students’ ideas increased in sophistication through ‘teachable moments’, wherein students learnt through dialogic teacher-student and student-student exchanges. We assert that such exchanges ought to be viewed as an integral part of the slowmation construction process itself. While the study’s findings support existing research that suggests representation-based activities are effective for student learning of geological phenomena, they also raise important questions about how to best engage middle school students in the construction of a slowmation.

Artistic Action and Stop Motion Animation for Preschool Children in the Particular Context of the Summer Camps Organized by the Athens Open Schools Institution: A Case Study

In the last few decades, workshop animation has greatly contributed to the artistic expression of preschool children. The ways of development and the methods that are used each time in a workshop vary depending on the case. In this study, it is particularly interesting to note that at this specific workshop animation, 50 children of different ages and nationalities, from different regions of Athens participated during the summer. The reactions of 25 children aged 5 to 6 years and the way of working with older children were taken into consideration and examined. This action took place within the Open Schools programs, an institution that offers free creative participation to children who, due to financial problems because of the economic crisis, were unable to leave Athens in the summer and/or pay similar private institutions. Despite the exceptionally difficult circumstances preschool children were able to follow the stop motion animation process they played, had fun and created their own movie.

‘Diagrams of Motion’: Stop-Motion Animation as a Form of Kinetic Sculpture in the Short Films of Jan Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay

Jean-Luc Godard wrote that ‘The cinema is not an art which films life; the cinema is something between art and life’ (cited in Roud’s, 2010, biography of Godard), an observation particularly true of stop-motion animation. The filmmakers discussed in this essay, Jan Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay, share a fascination with the latent content of found objects; they believe that forgotten toys, discarded tools and other such objects contain echoes of past experiences. Extrapolating Švankmajer’s belief that memories are imparted to the objects we touch, the manipulation of his found objects as puppets in his films becomes a means of evoking and repurposing their latent content, just as the Quays develop their dreamlike films from the psychic content they perceive in their armatures. Making a case study of a selection of these animators’ short films, this article examines the practice of stop-motion animation against that of kinetic sculpture, unpicking the complexities of the relationship between the inherently static mediums of sculpture and photography – symbolic of a fixed moment in time – and that of stop-motion animation, a temporal pocket in which these fossilized moments are revived once more.

Homo risibilis as a Way of Becoming a Responsible Philosopher (and Philosophical Practitioner)

This paper aims to start a dialogue with Lydia Amir’s book. It put some questions to Amir in order to be answered. Some of the questions are following ones: Does homo risibilis and smile decreases when money increases? Should we put limits to jokes? Does homo risibilis stop action? What is the epistemological nature of the truth developed by homo risibilis? What is the responsibility of philosophy faculty members? Can philosophical practice help to recover spirituality? What is the relationship between deep ecology and philosophical practice?

Big Sound and Extreme Fungi-Xerophilic, Halotolerant Aspergilli and Penicillia with Low Optimal Temperature as Invaders of Historic Pipe Organs.

Recent investigations have shown that xerophilic fungi may pose a biodeterioration risk by threatening objects of cultural heritage including many types of materials, including wood, paint layers, organic glues or leather and even metal. Historic—and also new built—pipe organs combine all those materials. In this study, halotolerant aspergilli and penicillia with low optimal temperatures were shown to be the most frequent invaders of pipe organs. The fungi form white mycelia on the organic components of the organs with a clear preference for the bolus paint of the wooden pipes, the leather-made hinges of the stop actions and all parts fixed by organic glue. Physiological tests showed that the strains isolated from the instruments all show a halotolerant behavior, although none was halophilic. The optimum growth temperature is below 20 °C, thus the fungi are perfectly adapted to the cool and relatively dry conditions in the churches and organs respectively. The de-novo genome sequences analyses of the strains are currently ongoing and will reveal the genomic basis for the halotolerant behavior of the fungi.

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Digital Sutures: Experimental Stop-Motion Animation as Future Horizon of Indigenous Cinema

Digital Sutures: Experimental Stop-Motion Animation as Future Horizon of Indigenous Cinema

4D Cubism: Modeling, Animation, and Fabrication of Artistic Shapes.

This article deals with creating artistic shapes in a cubist style. The authors propose adding cubist features to (or cubification of) time-variant sculptural shapes. A new concept of a 4D cubist camera is introduced for multiple projections from 4D space-time to 3D space, and 3D printing for stop-motion animation is applied.

Optimization of CMOS image sensor utilizing variable temporal multisampling partial transfer technique to achieve full-frame high dynamic range with superior low light and stop motion capability

Differential binary pixel technology is a threshold-based timing, readout, and image reconstruction method that utilizes the subframe partial charge transfer technique in a standard four-transistor (4T) pixel CMOS image sensor to achieve a high dynamic range video with stop motion. This technology improves low light signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by up to 21 dB. The method is verified in silicon using a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s 65 nm 1.1 μm pixel technology 1 megapixel test chip array and is compared with a traditional 4 × oversampling technique using full charge transfer to show low light SNR superiority of the presented technology.

Microstructure evolution of Cu–30Zn during friction stir welding

The microstructure evolution of Cu–30Zn during the deformation and cooling stages of friction stir welding was separately investigated by employing the in-process rapid cooling, tool “stop action”, and subsequent short-time annealing. A pure copper foil was inserted into the butting surfaces of the two workpieces to show the microstructure evolution path. The microstructure along the material flow path was investigated by the EBSD technique. At the weld’s upper part, continuous material flow occurs nearly over the whole range of the shoulder. The initial coarse grains are refined by the discontinuous dynamic recrystallization (DDRX) accompanied by the annealing twinning. During the material flow, the grain structure evolution is dominated by the annealing twinning during the thermally activated grain boundary migration and the subsequent twin destruction due to further deformation, resulting in a nearly constant grain size. Finally, normal grain growth occurs at the cooling period. At the lower part, the material transfers in a very thin layer near the probe surface and rapidly forms stable band structures. Due to the lower heat generation and higher strain rate, the mechanical twinning occurs in front of the probe. These deformation twins can provide additional nucleation sites for the DDRX via the twin destruction caused by further deformation. The higher strain rate in the weld’s lower part contributes to the finer grains than that of the upper part grains. However, due to the shoulder’s coverage, the lower part undergoes a longer cooling period than the upper part, and thus more significant grain growth occurs.

Voicemail Box

A short animation using rotoscoping and stop motion. The animation depicts the simple and sometimes trivial things that keeps one from the phone, leaving the caller to speak to their voicemail. The sounds used are real voicemails left by close family members and friends. It also displays the range of emotions that can be heard through the grainy sounds.

Designing Spaces for Creativity and Divergent Thinking: Pre-Service Teachers Creating Stop Motion Animation on Tablets

In recent years, tablets have been shown to serve as incredible teaching tools in classrooms around the world. In mathematics education, divergent thinking, creativity, and play may play a key role in formation of adaptive thinking and math achievement. This qualitative, participatory action research investigated the use of an instructional model that provided minimal instruction in the use of tablets to create stop motion animation movies. This study focused on the themes and patterns that emerged as pre-service teachers integrate a design thinking philosophy as they explore creativity and divergent thinking through the creation of stop motion animation movies. This study employed a participatory action research design that examined the use of an instructional approach informed by design thinking that utilized tablets to enable pre-service teachers to create stop motion animation movies and examine pedagogical implications of creativity, divergent and convergent thinking.

Research on Creative Performance of Animation Art in Advertisement

As technologies are constantly updated in the digital era, animation can be roughly divided into animation stop-motion animation, 2D hand-drawn animation, and 3D hand-drawn animation. The diversification of the animation art forms of its application field, and the film and television advertising art realm based on multiple sensory experience has its unique creativity form. This paper analyzes he creative performance of animation in advertisements from advertising theme positioning, creative thinking, expression way and lens language, so as to achieve the perfect unity artistic effect by integrating animation art and advertising appeals. The technological revolution in digital era has brought great opportunities to animation. When the animation art encountered advertisement, and the new advertising promotion layout entered a new field and brought a multi sensory experience for people. And animation advertisements walk on the new fashion front from its originally secluded quiet place. Digital technology has greatly expanded the creative performance field of animation, and new methods and ways are used to express the themes of advertising, the animation as a strong expressional form, provide more creative space and platform, and expand the art connotation and cultural taste of advertising to a certain extent.

Critical overview of emission calculation models in order to evaluate their potential use in estimation of Greenhouse Gas emissions from in port truck operations

Abstract Transport is the fastest growing emission sector with road transport subsector to consist the largest contributor to global warming. Heavy Duty Vehicles used for freight transportation in particular, are responsible about 6% of total EU emissions. Main objective of this study is to perform the first critical review of the most well known, used and cited emission calculation models and evaluate their potential use in estimation of Greenhouse Gas emissions from port truck operations. These operations, which mainly include container transport by heavy duty vehicle, are characterized by frequent stop and go motions due to traffic congestion, low speeds and heavy idling. In total, 10 models were presented, reviewed, analyzed and compared for the first time. This review showed that two of the models that appear more frequently are MOVES and COPERT, and both of them are considered appropriate for use in case on in-port operations. However, analysis also showed that these models do not include parameters that are considered crucial in cases of truck operations in port terminals, such as the effect of frequent stop and go motions due to traffic congestion resulting from waiting queues in port gates and drop-off/pick up points. Thus in order for either model to be used successfully in port truck operations, modifications are needed.

Gesture as transduction of characterisation in children’s literature animation adaptation

Contemporary first language curricula such as the Australian Curriculum: English strongly advocates the teaching of multimodal digital literature in the form of film in which understanding how characterisation is developed is a key task in comprehending and composing literature. In printed literary work, characterisation relies on the only semiotic resource-language to directly or indirectly depict a character’s personality. However, in digital multimodal literature such as film, language is only one among many resources including actions, body language, sound, cinematography, and lighting that all negotiate their shared roles to contribute to the characterisation process. This paper discusses the pivotal role of gesture in the characterisation of Coraline, the central character in a stop-motion animation adaptation of the novel with this name. The paper proposes a framework for examining attitudinal meanings in gesture from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics, which was applied to analyse the deployment of Coraline’s gesture during points of tension in the movie. The analysis indicates that gesture and co-occuring speech by the character never realise the same kinds of attitudinal meanings. Even when the two semiotics converge, gesture always has more attitudinal meaning commitment (i.e., Graduation) than language. These findings call for a conceptual renovation in first language education curricula. The pivotal role of body language should be given the status it deserves if digital multimodal literature education is to be taken seriously as indicated in the curriculum.

Investigation of temperature dependent microstructure evolution of pure iron during friction stir welding using liquid CO2 rapid cooling

The microstructure evolution of pure iron during friction stir welding was reconstructed by an ingenious experimental design, in which the rapid cooling friction stir welding combined with the tool “stop action” technique and the subsequent short-time annealing were adopted to “freeze” the transient microstructure during the stirring and reproduce the normal cooling during conventional friction stir welding, respectively. The microstructure evolution during the stirring and normal cooling was investigated along the material flow path and in the annealed “frozen” weld zone by high-resolution electron-backscatter-diffraction technique. The results show that the continuous and discontinuous dynamic recrystallizations occur simultaneously at the severe deformation stage in front of the tool both under low and high heat input conditions. However, during the material flow, the microstructure evolution involves the plastic deformation, recrystallization, high angle boundaries migration and dynamic recovery under the low heat input condition, while in a dynamic balance of deformation, recrystallization and grain growth under the high heat input conditions. At the cooling stage, normal grain growth occurs both for the low and high heat input welding conditions, while it is very limited for the low heat input condition.