After splurging to grab all the clay from a closing factory, the studio's supply is reaching its end as it works on a new Wallace & Gromit movie. Reading time 2 minutes Aardman Animations has been ...

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This week, the pioneering studio Laika returns with “Missing Link,” the stop-motion animated family film starring Hugh Jackman and Zach Galifianakis. With “Missing Link” landing in theaters on Friday, ...

For Will Vinton, everything started with a lump of clay. During the 1960s, he was an architecture student at UC Berkeley when he became fascinated by the whimsical, organic work of Spanish architect ...

Even in the age of CGI, films made using claymation—a portmanteau meaning “clay animation”—are still going strong. A host of movies using the stop-motion technique have been nominated for best ...

Inside a cavernous office-park building in this southwest English city, dozens of grown-ups are moving goofy clay figures around like kids playing with their Barbies or GI Joes. A hundred miles away ...

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 ...

Perhaps animators just don’t get the respect they deserve. Even after a half-century of cinematic auteur theory, we seldom talk about “the great animation directors.” For every Walt Disney or Chuck ...

Aardman uses old school stop-motion and clay animation techniques for its films. Wallace And Gromit creator Nick Park has said Aardman Animations will “embrace” artificial intelligence (AI) while ...

The best animation styles offer powerfully effective ways to tell stories that captivate audiences, whether it's for ...

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