Stop Motion Animation in Computer Games

On occasion, stop motion has been used for the creation of characters in computer games. This has been done as an alternative to using CGI. An example of this would be in the game Magic and Mayhem made in 1998 (also known as Duel: The Mage Wars). These characters were made by a man called Alan Friswell. These characters were made from modelling clay and latex rubber, they would be moulded over figures made from wire and ball-and-socket joints. The models would have then been animated into the game one frame at a time and later put in to the rest of the CGI parts of the game through digital photography.

Here is a picture of the game play from Magic and Mayhem:


                            

Clayfighter, made for the Super Nintendo console and The Neverhood which was made for PC are other computer games which use stop motion animation.

Clayfighter:

                

The Neverhood: