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It’s a summer night in 1973. Two young animators are in a basement in Northwest Portland, experimenting with stop-motion clay animation. It’s an experiment that will soon revolutionize the animation ...

Stop-motion cartoons may seem a bit old school for a super-high-tech graphics event like SIGGRAPH. But the brains behind 'Shaun the Sheep Movie' are there to offer a warning: "Danger if you take ...

Will Vinton, who used his and a partner’s revolutionary stop-motion animation process, Claymation, to win an Academy Award with an early cartoon and to create memorable commercial characters like the ...

The best stop motion animated films bring something purely imagined to vivid life in a way that other animation techniques ...

During the lockdown, I started studying tutorials about stop motion techniques, with the vague intention of trying my hand at some animation of my own. But my natural laziness intervened and I never ...

From the hypnotic surrealism of The Vandal to the monochrome precision of Perfect, filmmaker Eddie Alcazar has never shied away from blending form and function. But his latest animated short, Bullet ...

DENVER — Randy Boyum has been playing with clay for more than 40 years. "I dabbled in clay animation as a 12-year-old in the mid-1970’s, producing a few truly horrible short films," Boyum, now 58, ...

THE ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER, AND THIS MORNING WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT HOW SOME OF THE CLASSIC SCI FI MOVIES WERE MADE. MARQUISE MEDA IS FINDING OUT ALL ABOUT STOP MOTION ANIMATION IN TODAY’S SCIENCE OF ...

The chickens in “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” are sweet. Not just to look at, with their wide eyes and goofy grins, but literally: if you licked the palm-sized clay and silicone bird models they’d ...

LACHLAN PENDRAGON: It’s ridiculously meta and very self-referential. It deconstructs the processes of stop-motion filmmaking. So, that idea comes from a research perspective. I made this as a ...

Stop-motion is a captivating animation technique that brings inanimate objects to life through a series of captured ...