Why is stop-motion animation so much more inherently creepy than

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Watch The Fly

That movie is fucking disgusting and uses basically no CGi.

The Thing is also pretty grossly fascinating

Because everything looks real enough to register as not animated, while moving like an animation. This visual zone is generally referred to as the "uncanny valley".

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https://youtu.be/V72NKRyX1NA?t=2m52s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaN_N4S0HJk

You pay for life.

>>87102149
This. It's real but it moves at visibly unrealistic speeds. If done really wrong it just implies to your brain, something is wrong here. Also a lot of it is usually creepy deformed clay and plastic.

it's not all disgusting! look at this domestic bliss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d-tNXxTRBA

>>87102047
Hey /co/, want to party?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IyU02E9bdM

>>87102807
>Jan Svankmajer
That guy's body of work really unnerves me.

>>87102090
Those movies don't use stop motion thought, they use animatronics(which are also a great way to make fucked up, creepy shit)

>>87103437
The Thing uses some stop-motion but you're right, it's mostly animatronics.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge18Ieyi9bI

This one is great

I think it's comfy ^w^

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IMO, Movement is very important in disiguishing regular living things from inanimate or dead things. Things that move inorganically activate the uncanny Valley effect and make our brain go what the hell is that? That shit ain't alive but it sure as he'll ain't dead.
Ghosts skipping frames of existence, Beasts barreling down hallways and contorted monstrosities shambling like they're in agony creeps the hell out of people.
The motion in stop motion is usually made from the smaller of movements for control. Unlike pictures that capture live motion or animation that copies it well.

Stop motion is, by necessity, choppier than other forms of animation.

This is unsettling for the same reason Jacob's Ladder is.

>>87102047
It's all about the motion

I mean, just look at something like Kubo (or any Laika work), they aren't all that creepy or unnerving despite being stop motion, the reason being is because there's so much effort put into the motion that it looks almost as smooth as CGI.

Now look at most stop motion works, especially ones trying to be creepy, notice the extremely jerky movements, that start/stop look. It's creepy because our brain registers that no living being is supposed to move like that.