It is traditionally used to make stop motion animation films, but the technique has been adopted into videos, art projects and recreated digitally in the best animation software.

“Basics of Animation for Youth: Stop Motion with Your Smartphone or Tablet,” a class this month at Port Townsend’s Northwind Art School, teaches how to use common equipment to make animated movies.

Stop-motion is a captivating animation technique that brings inanimate objects to life through a series of captured photographs. It is traditionally used to make stop motion animation films, but ...