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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Last Friday, UK’s The Telegraph reported that Aardman Animations is currently experiencing a clay shortage after their clay supplier closed down earlier this year. The stop-motion studio reportedly ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week, the pioneering studio Laika returns with “Missing Link,” the stop-motion animated family film starring Hugh Jackman and ...

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 ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Stop motion animation is a technique as old as cinema itself creating one frame at a time by hand using puppets moved ever so slightly between shots. When shown one after ...