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What are the similarities and differences between stop-motion animation and time-lapse photography?

The similarity between the two is that they both connect single pictures with relatively continuous content to make videos, and basically shoot the original materials with cameras.

The difference between "freeze animation" and "time-lapse photography";

1, the creative meaning is different. Time-lapse photography is artificially controlling time, and stop-motion animation is artificially controlling content.

2. Different themes. Freeze-frame animation is a scene shot by human operation, which makes the content of each frame closely connected with the content of the next frame. Time-lapse photography is mainly to shoot non-artificial scenery in natural state, and compress the original long-term scene motion into a short time.

3. Different shooting techniques. Time-lapse photography is a photography technique that takes an image or video at a low frame rate and then plays the image at a normal or faster rate. Stop-motion animation is by shooting objects one by one and then letting them be shown continuously.

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Time-lapse photography mainly focuses on natural scenery, urban humanities and biological activities. In nature, such as cell division, egg hatching, solar eclipse, cloud change, astronomical geography, urban change, urban life, transportation, scientific research and other topics.

Time-lapse photography is also widely used in TV and movies, and its method of squeezing space often shows the artistic conception of the rapid passage of time, which has become the first choice for many film and television works.

Because SLR can take large-resolution photos, time-lapse photography is widely used to record 4K standard video. Many TV manufacturers often use time-lapse photography to shoot scenery, food, utensils and so on. In order to display the advantages of 4K images, video effects of hundreds of thousands or even millions of cameras can be obtained at a small cost.

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