Animation-ish ($60, free demo) is a very simple, intuitive, sensibly progressive tool to learn stop-frame animation based on author and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s books.

While putting together a stop-action animation can still be painstaking, the process is now easier than ever, thanks to certain low-cost software.

Variously known as stop-frame animation, stop-motion or claymation, it involves photographing puppets made from modelling clay while making the tiniest movements in each frame.

Stop frame animation, also known as stop motion, is a unique and intricate form of animation that involves physically manipulating objects in small increments between individually photographed frames.

It has nothing to do with drawing and, in most cases, there’s nary a computer in sight. Yet the old-school animation style known as stop motion – you know, Gumby, Speedy Alka-Seltzer, the ...

Experience the creativity of stop motion with “I Did It Too”, a unique clay animation made in Mexico. This short film showcases the charm of claymation storytelling, blending handmade art with the ...

Estonian stop-motion animation still thrives, wins at Cannes, hits Academy shortlists, has busy studios such as Rebel Frame and Nukufilm.

FULLERTON — Trevor Clarke, an animator and 3-D design student at Fullerton College, won a global design award for the character he created for use in stop-frame animation. To create the ...

Burton and the 'Wednesday' showrunners discuss making that stunning flashback: "We needed to pretend like I'm back in my ...