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Two men that also helped create classics are the Quay brothers, Stephen and Timothy Quay studied illustration and then attended the Royal College of Art in London, where they started to make animated shorts in the 1970s. These two brothers had a shared interest in the small details, they created their own mini sets making sure they add in every color and texture, the technique being immense detail. Their models also had the same treatment having been built exactly how the brothers wanted, then moving the models and the set together to create their animation. Most of their animation films feature puppets made of doll parts and other materials, often partially disassembled set in a dark, moody atmosphere. This style much like Tim Burtons was new to stopmotion and helped drum up interest, having a big impact on stop-frame history. If you haven’t noticed animation can come in many forms, it isn’t just friendly cartoons and Morph. People can add their own spin to it and create quite dark and gritty movies. This content can end up anywhere, many people use stop motion in music videos due to its interesting and impressive look same going for people using it in adverts. Many TV shows still use stop motion mostly being kids shows like “Shawn the Sheep” created by Aardman Animations and especially in film like “The Corpse Bride” made by Tim Burton. Animation isn’t just set to one genre; many people enjoy stopframe animation but it’s downsides are mostly time based. Broadcasters have even gone as far as to have some channel indents include animation, so it’s easy to see how animation is spread across a lot of media.