sort of digital images he or she desires. So why would anyone want to return to the days of stop-motion animation, that painstakingly precise, time-consuming process in which models, figures or cutouts are manipulated by hand to create the illusion of motion?
For filmmaker and artist Jake Down, an 18-year-old senior at Howell High School, the use of stop-motion was sparked by his love of TV characters from an earlier era.
``I was a big Gumby fan when I was a kid,'' he said, ``that, and `Oh, no, Mr. Bill' (the of that sparked my interest.''
Gumby, Mr.
Bill and the Christian-oriented ``Davy and examples of stop-motion animation in the 1960s and 1970s.
``When I grew up, I started trying to figure out how to use do,'' Down said. ``That got me interested in ``Paper Town,'' in which a man develops an year's Teen Filmmaker Festival, co-sponsored by the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and Kalamazoo Public Library.
art of stop-motion. In fact, the technique is enjoying something of a revival. At this year's Kalamazoo stop-motion process at 9 a.
m. Saturday at the Center for New movies themselves. Traditionally, it involves positioning a figure in front of a camera, shooting one frame of film second), moving the figure a fraction of an inch, exposing over until you have a complete scene.
1925 and in the first ``King Kong'' in 1933.
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