Stop Motion Animation

Last week at college we were shown a couple of animation video, ranging from stop motion to 3D cell animation.  I have created my own stop motion animation piece before at school, and at the time I really enjoyed it.  We were directed to form small groups and create our own stop motion animation out of post stick-notes and a digital camera to experiment with animation and enhance our understanding of it.  In my group we created an animation based on 'retro' video games such as; Pong, Snake, Space Invaders and Tetris, and every time we moved a post stick-note we took a picture.  We had to make sure that the camera remained still at all times so that the animation flowed and didn't jump.  When we had finished the production we had a look back through the images on the camera, and to say we had come up the the idea and created it in less an hour, I think that it look good, and its ready for editing in post production when the equipment is available to use.  I think from exploring different forms of media means that I have greater knowledge that if I didn't, but I can't say that I want to work on animation too often.