I’ve always thought that one of the appeals of stop-motion claymation was the imperfections in the animation, how things never quite moved as fluidly as real life. After watching this short from ...

When you think about the level of detail and labor that goes into a feature-length stop-motion film, it boggles the mind. It's that elbow grease and abundant creativity that make stop-motion animation ...

Animation Supplies has launched Chroma Clay, a new UK-made plasticine developed specifically for stop-motion animation following the closure of Newplast’s factory, a loss that left many animators ...

Early childhood is like being drunk, we learn in the stop-motion animated feature “Memoir of a Snail”: “Everyone remembers what you did except you.” Ah, but later childhood, that’s where the most ...

His innovative stop-motion animation influenced a generation of filmmakers, including the creators of Wallace and Gromit. By Michael S. Rosenwald Eli Noyes, a filmmaker whose use of clay and sand in ...

Way back in the 1990s, as violent fighting games like Mortal Kombat were enthralling kids and worrying their parents, one series tried to buck the trend. With their roster of goofy circus-freak ...

One of the biggest lessons of working on stop-motion video games? Rolling up your sleeves — literally. “It’s such a nightmare,” Talha & Jack Co developer Jack King-Spooner told me over a video call.

A stop-motion animator can spend a week manipulating a small puppet around, frame by frame, for a total of just three seconds of footage. Why would anyone want to do that? The truth is, fewer and ...