Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDIyysAf3O0

Squash and Stretch:
This is what gives the stop motion the weight because because its like a bouncing ball moving into a person walking, this is the important  element that you will need to do a stop motion.

Anticipation: This is a motion that is able to help you make the person move like jumping off the ground, running. so this motion is for helping your motion move.

Staging: this helps by getting different shots of the object you are taking pictures of like long, medium, or close up shots of the object.

Straight ahead and pose to pose animation: with pose to pose you can lose size,volume, and proportion with this method.

History:
The invention of the thaumatrope, whose name means "turning marvel" or "wonder turner," has often been credited to the astronomer Sir John Herschel.  However, it was a well-known London physicist, Dr. John A. Paris, who made this toy popular.  Thaumatropes were the first of many optical toys, simple devices that continued to provide animated entertainment until the development of modern cinema.

How it works:
A thaumatrope is a small disc, held on opposite sides of its circumference by pieces of string.  An image is drawn on each side of the disc, and is selected in such a way that when the disc is spun, the two images appear to become superimposed. 

Its cool because it makes our eyes look like we are just looking at a picture but for us it look like a video to us but its a picture.

GULP

I was very surprised by how long it took them to make "GULP". It was an amazing short film, I got to see how much computers and technology they have to us to make the film. It looks like a short film to us but if you listen really closely you can see that it takes a lot of hands to make the film be as great as it could be. I really enjoyed the film and it was really great to watch,