Here is the trailer of the film by Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable, 'The Boxtrolls' (YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Vfm4uPESCoI ).If the trailer is any indication of what's to come, the "Boxtrolls" movie will take stop motion animation to a new artistic level. Set for release in September 2014, the trailer gives audiences their first glimpse of the countless hours, if not years, that went into the production of this film. “BoxTrolls” is set in a Victorian-era town and visually projects itself into this bygone era using the stop-motion technique to tell their story. At the beginning of the trailer you can see how daunting creating characters and scenarios out of clay is. The characters begin to come to life as they move towards the end of the trailer when they showcase full use of the clay figures in the stop-motion background. For more than a hundred years stop motion has existed in one form or another. At a constant speed, a series of frames were taken, each slightly different from the next. The human eye perceives this as continuous action and the brain stitches the frames together seamlessly and it appears as a moving image. The object is moved in small increments between independently photographed frames, creating the illusion of connection when the series of frames is played back as a continuous sequence. In its earliest form of stop-motion animation there was objective manipulation. The stop-motion technique was created to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton were the first to use the idea of ​​a stop-motion film. In 1897 they created The Humpty Dumpty Circus, a film in which...... middle of paper......ngs. Nothing has been left to chance, down to the smallest detail. The one thing that hasn't changed over the years, no shortcuts to producing a film. Modern artists continue to push the limits of a medium, but this still requires hours of tedious work before realizing the final product. The stop-motion technique has made great strides and is constantly improving. While Hollywood has a love affair with computers and CGI, stop-motion is alive and well. It is an art form, in its essence, that can be labeled a true labor of love due to the enormous amount of hard work, perseverance and detail that is involved. Biography1. Adams, AL “LAIKA on the Edge: Unpacking “The BoxTrolls” Trailer.” Oregon Art Clock. Np, 13 July 2013. Web. 26 March 2014.2. Kelly, Kevin. "A Brief History of Stop-Motion Animation." FilmRSS. Np, 4 February 2009. Web. 26 March. 2014.