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.

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.

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

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.

Stop-motion animation is a style of animation that utilizes photographing and then physically moving objects within the frame in order to tell a story. As each frame is played together, the ...

Stop motion was deemed too time consuming: painstakingly animating clay or wooden puppets by hand, frame by frame, so that, played in succession, photographed frames mimic real action.

Even though we use very specific techniques and high end equipment, some frames are often slightly brighter by such a small margin that the switching between the frames causes a very subtle strobe ...

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 ...