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, ...

Eli Noyes, the Oscar-nominated animator who revolutionized stop-motion filmmaking with his innovative use of clay and sand, has died. He was 81. Noyes died Saturday of complications from prostate ...

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 ...

Bristol, U.K.-based Aardman Animations has denied a story in The Telegraph claiming that the studio won’t have enough clay to make films after its upcoming Wallace & Gromit feature for Netflix. The ...

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 ...

How to make clay animation figures Art instructor, Ari Fish from the Kansas City Art Institute is back! She teaches us the art of making our own clay animation figures for stop animation.

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 ...