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That's just wrong. Overcraking (running the film through the camera faster than normal) slows motion down. Undercranking speeds it up.

Stop-motion doesn't slow things down; it's a technique where you expose one frame of film, move something (usually a model) slightly, and expose the next frame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_motion

Stop-motion animation examples include the original King Kong, Sinbad and all those other Ray Harryhausen films, the AT-ATs in Empire Strikes Back. (And there was also a technique called "Go motion" animation where the puppet was moved during the frame exposure, thus causing motion blur, and making for a much more realistic animation, which was used for the dragon in DragonSlayer and I think some of Return of the Jedi.)

If you want to get really pedantic, probably the best term for this jellybean video is "pixilation". I know we use that word differently nowadays, but before computer graphics were common, "pixilation" was the term for stop-motion animated real-world objects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixilation

Thank you for letting my nearly pointless film degree not go entirely to waste.




You're welcome.

That's what I get for posting when tired... gotta get some sleep.




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