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

The first thing from AAPT that I would like to mention is SAM Animation that Brian Gravel demonstrated. SAM is free software that allows for the easy creation of stop motion animations. Basically, you ...

Naomi: Hi! Oh what’s going on here? Naomi: This isn’t right – I feel a bit peculiar! Naomi: Well that was strange! Anyway, I’m here at this animation studio to set you a challenge. Naomi: This studio ...

Learn the basics of stop-motion animation through Animation-ish’s clever three-level process. Animation-ish ($60, free demo) is a very simple, intuitive, sensibly progressive tool to learn stop-frame ...

In a world where media makers are acutely focused on creating narratives filled with empathetic characters in relatable environments, it seems worthwhile to look at the role artifice has played in the ...

Stop-motion animation has been made popular by the likes of Aardman’s Wallace and Gromit films but they’re not the only ones ...

Today, Slate told the story of Wladislaw Starewicz and his weird, animated, insect-puppet stop motion movies. Here’s his masterpiece, The Cameraman’s Revenge, made in 1912: Starewicz wasn’t the first ...

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 ...