History Main / StopFauxtion

Compare {{Retraux}}, where a newer work is deliberately produced in an older medium or made to look like it is. Compare other tropes where one form of animation imitates another, such as CelShading,[[note]]where 3D animation tries to match the look of traditional hand-drawn cel animation,[[/note]] {{Animesque}},[[note]]Non-Japanese animation that looks like anime[[/note]], {{Disneyesque}}[[note]]Non-Disney works mimicking the style of Disney animation.[[/note]] and PaintedCGI[[note]]CGI cartoons mimicking the style of traditional animation .[[/note]] May overlap with ArtShift if stop fauxtion is used for a smaller segment of work that normally uses a different medium or art style.

Compare {{Retraux}}, where a newer work is deliberately produced in an older medium or made to look like it is. Compare other tropes where one form of animation imitates another, such as CelShading,[[note]]where 3D animation tries to match the look of traditional hand-drawn cel animation,[[/note]] {{Animesque}},[[note]]Non-Japanese animation that looks like anime[[/note]] and {{Disneyesque}}.[[note]]Non-Disney works mimicking the style of Disney animation.[[/note]] May overlap with ArtShift if stop fauxtion is used for a smaller segment of work that normally uses a different medium or art style.

* ''Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys'' is a CG movie by Goodtimes that acts as a sequel to the Rankin-Bass [[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer1964 classic]]. The original was stop-motion, but this sequel is very cheap CG. The lack of sufficient interstitial frames makes the whole thing look much like stop motion, though it's unclear whether this was intentional or simply a result of the low budget.

* ''Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys'' is a CG movie by Goodtimes that acts as a sequel to the Rankin-Bass classic. The original was stop-motion, but this sequel is very cheap CG. The lack of sufficient interstitial frames makes the whole thing look much like stop motion, though it's unclear whether this was intentional or simply a result of the low budget.

Compare {{Retraux}}, where a newer work is deliberately produced in an older medium or made to look like it is. Compare other tropes where one form of animation imitates another, such as CelShading,[[note]]where 3D animation tries to match the look of traditional hand-drawn cel animation,[[/note]] {{Animesque}},[[note]]Non-Japanese animation that looks like anime[[/note]] and {{Disneyesque}}.[[note]]Non-Disney works mimicking the style of Disney animation.[[/note]] May overlap with ArtShift if stop fauxtion is used for a smaller segment of work that normally uses a different art style.

* ''VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures4thGradeHauntedIsland'' uses CGI animation that's designed to resemble stop-motion in the style of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''. However, the game also uses 2D animation at some points, especially for the [[MiniGame Mini-Games]].
* ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheRainbowCurse'' has environments and character models that look like they came from a claymation film.
* The "Village of Shadows" storybook cutscene that opens ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' and plays over its end credits is animated to look like a dark fantasy stop-motion sequence evocative of films like ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' and ''{{WesternAnimation/Coraline}}''.
* ''VideoGame/WallaceAndGromitsGrandAdventures'' is CGI since it's a video game, but it still has things like fingerprints left on the models in order to replicate the stop motion of the source material.

* ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheRainbowCurse'' uses a claymation style for both its character models and environments.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is the SpiritualSuccessor to animated shorts created using StopMotion with construction paper; however the show, aside from the PilotEpisode, uses computer animation to replicate this style. This allows each episode to be produced entirely within the week before they air, in contrast to most animation [[AnimationLeadTime which has to start production several months or even years before release]], enabling the show to be extremely topical.

Compare {{Retraux}}, where a newer work is deliberately produced in an older medium or made to look like it is. Compare other tropes where one form of animation imitates another, such as CelShading,[[note]]where 3D animation tries to match the look of traditional hand-drawn cel animation,[[/note]] {{Animesque}},[[note]](non-Japanese animation that looks like anime)[[/note]] and {{Disneyesque}}.[[note]]Non-Disney works mimicking the style of Disney animation.[[/note]] May overlap with ArtShift if stop fauxtion is used for a smaller segment of work that normally uses a different art style.

Compare {{Retraux}}, where a newer work is deliberately produced in an older medium or made to look like it is. Compare other tropes where one form of animation imitates another, such as CelShading,[[note]]Where 3D animation tries to match the look of traditional hand-drawn cel animation.[[/note]] {{Animesque}},[[note]]Non-Japanese animation that looks like anime.[[/note]] and {{Disneyesque}}.[[note]]Non-Disney works mimicking the style of Disney animation.[[/note]] May overlap with ArtShift if stop fauxtion is used for a smaller segment of work that normally uses a different art style.

Compare {{Retraux}}, where a newer work is deliberately produced in an older medium or made to look like it is. Compare other tropes where one form of animation imitates another, such as CelShading,[[note]]Where 3D animation tries to match the look of traditional hand-drawn cel animation.[[/note]], {{Animesque}},[[note]]Non-Japanese animation that looks like anime.[[/note]] and {{Disneyesque}}.[[note]]Non-Disney works mimicking the style of Disney animation.[[/note]] May overlap with ArtShift if stop fauxtion is used for a smaller segment of work that normally uses a different art style.

Compare {{Retraux}}, where a newer work is deliberately produced in an older medium or made to look like it is. Compare other tropes where one form of animation imitates another, such as CelShading[[note]]where 3D animation tries to match the look of traditional hand-drawn cel animation[[/note]], {{Animesque}}[[note]]Non-Japanese animation that looks like anime[[/note]], and {{Disneyesque}}[[note]]Non-Disney works mimicking the style of Disney animation[[/note]]. May overlap with ArtShift if stop fauxtion is used for a smaller segment of work that normally uses a different art style.

However, stop motion is also notoriously time and labor intensive to produce, even compared to other forms of animation. It's also flat-out impossible to utilize in certain mediums, such as 3D video games[[note]]2D games may incorporate actual stop motion via digitized sprites, but it typically cannot be incorporated into games utilizing UsefulNotes/PolygonalGraphics unless the developer opts for SpritePolygonMix.[[/note]]. Certain elements such as intense action sequences or complicated character designs are also extremely difficult if not impossible to produce with stop motion. For these reasons, a lot of modern creators will resort to mimicking the appearance of stop motion using other mediums that are easier and/or cheaper to work with, usually computer animation.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart its sequel]], and ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie'' are almost entirely CGI, but are made to look as if they were animated in stop motion using actual LEGO models in the style of brickfilms.

However, stop motion is also notoriously time and labor intensive to produce, even compared to other forms of animation. It's also flat-out impossible to utilize in certain mediums, such as 3D video games[[note]]2D games may incorporate actual stop motion via digitized sprites, but it typically cannot be incorporated into games utilizing UsefulNotes/PolygonalGraphics unless the developer opts for SpritePolygonMix.[[/note]]. Certain elements such as intense action sequences or complicated character designs are also extremely difficult if not impossible to produce with stop motion. For these reasons, a lot of modern creators will resort mimicking the appearance of stop motion using other mediums that are easier and/or cheaper to work with, usually computer animation.

However, stop motion is also notoriously time and labor intensive to produce, even compared to other forms of animation. It's also flat-out impossible to utilize in certain mediums, such as 3D video games. Certain elements such as intense action sequences or complicated character designs are also extremely difficult if not impossible to produce with stop motion. For these reasons, a lot of modern creators will resort mimicking the appearance of stop motion using other mediums that are easier and/or cheaper to work with, usually computer animation.

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* The works of Elizabeth Ito, such as ''WesternAnimation/WelcomeToMyLife'' and ''WesternAnimation/CityOfGhosts'', are CGI but are animated so as to resemble claymation.

* ''WebAnimation/CaptainYajima'' is a CGI animated short animated in Blender, but given a [[Creator/RankinBassProductions Rankin/Bass]] design for the characters, while also adding effects such as strings on spaceships to give a lower budget stop motion style.

* ''Film/{{Krampus}}'': Omi's story of the titular creature coming to her village and taking everyone but her is shown in a CG segment made to mimic multiple styles of stop-motion. Omi herself is animated in a style similar to the characters in Creator/{{Laika}}'s films, the other chracters are shadow puppets, and the effects are done in a paper-cutout style.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart its sequel]] and ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie'' are CGI, but are made to look as if they were animated in stop motion using actual Legos.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWilloughbys'': The movie is an [[AllCGICartoon All CGI Cartoon]], but it the animation looks like it's been done in Stop-Motion.

* Creator/AardmanAnimations made their name as a stop motion studio, but starting with ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' they branched out into making CGI films that take after the the style of their stop motion work to varying degrees of faithfulness.