# Stopmotion works using life-sized models? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 26, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopmotion-works-using-life-sized-models/562010 "2010-11-26T19:13:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopmotion-works-using-life-sized-models/562010/1 "2010-11-26T19:13:03Z")
Just a random thought that occurred to me after watching _The Fantastic Mr Fox_ again… have there ever been any significant stopmotion animation works where life sized models were used? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopmotion-works-using-life-sized-models/562010/2 "2010-11-26T19:33:32Z")
This might not be quite what you meant - some of Norman McLaren’s works used live actors to execute stop motion animations - [Neighbours](http://www.nfb.ca/film/neighbours_voisins), arguable his most famous creation [Pas de deux](http://www.nfb.ca/film/pas_de_deux_en) [A Chairy Tale](http://www.nfb.ca/film/a_Chairy_tale) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopmotion-works-using-life-sized-models/562010/3 "2010-11-26T19:36:49Z")
Would [Sledgehammer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0) count? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopmotion-works-using-life-sized-models/562010/4 "2010-11-26T19:50:43Z")
Or Ok Go’s [End Love](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fpgpanZAw)? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopmotion-works-using-life-sized-models/562010/5 "2010-11-26T20:07:08Z")
Or Jitlov’s [Wizard Of Speed And Time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLhLn9hVkE)? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopmotion-works-using-life-sized-models/562010/6 "2010-11-26T20:15:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Or Jitlov’s [Wizard Of Speed And Time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLhLn9hVkE)? Best answer! Jittlov is a real life special effect. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopmotion-works-using-life-sized-models/562010/7 "2010-11-26T20:31:50Z")
Those are all good (and valid stopmotion works), but what I was looking for was stopmotion done with life-sized, non-living models. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopmotion-works-using-life-sized-models/562010/8 "2010-11-26T22:34:07Z")
Jan Svankmajer’s [Neco z Alenky](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095715/), AKA Alice. It’s actually a combination of live action (Alice herself) and stop motion. But the stop motion models are…well, not all of the models were purpose built. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopmotion-works-using-life-sized-models/562010/9 "2010-11-27T01:01:41Z")
'Way back when they started doing animation, a fellow named Dawson animted life-size dinosaur models. That would seem to defeat the purpose of using animation, since you can build more convincing and much more easily animated miniatures than life-size figures, but the technology was new. Dawson applied for a patent on it, and tried to keep Willis O’Brien from using stop-motion because iof that. Would’ve been a disaster. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopmotion-works-using-life-sized-models/562010/10 "2010-11-27T04:07:19Z")
This is a tough question. Maybe there is some of Gilliam’s work that uses large as/larger than life models. I remember seeing some half-finished stuff in ‘Lost in La Mancha’ and wondering what exactly he had planned to do with it. I thought maybe Blu had done something, but almost all of his stuff centres around painting. [Big Bang Big Boom](http://www.blublu.org/sito/video/bbbb.htm) is the closest I’ve been able to find but although it has a couple of larger than life objects posing as life forms, the style is more about the continuous painting. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopmotion-works-using-life-sized-models/562010/11 "2010-11-27T07:31:29Z")
[Tony Vs. Paul](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1727961) ---
**Author:** ![Short\_Guy\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@Short\_Guy\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy_1)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopmotion-works-using-life-sized-models/562010/12 "2010-11-27T10:52:24Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > This is a tough question. > > Maybe there is some of Gilliam’s work that uses large as/larger than life models. I remember seeing some half-finished stuff in ‘Lost in La Mancha’ and wondering what exactly he had planned to do with it. If you mean what I think you mean, I’m pretty sure they were meant to be string puppets.