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Go motion blurred puppets while the shutter was open

A computer nudged the armature during each exposure so the frame carried blur Stop motion usually looks slightly strobed because every frame is razor sharp. Phil Tippett's go motion, used on Dragonslayer in 1981, moved the puppet a little during the exposure, smearing it the way a real moving object would. The result sat more convincingly against live action. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: A computer nudged the armature during each exposure so the frame carried blur. The figure is taken from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.