Before the silver screen
The golden age of hand-drawn art
Stop-motion and the physical world
The digital frontier and anime
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007skaty Laika 3D Printed Animation
Swap the face! Swap the face! A hundred thousand smiles moving frame by frame!
007skaty Popularized by Will Vinton in the 1970s and mastered by Aardman Animations, claymation uses plasticine over metal armatures, leaving characteristic fingerprints.
007skaty The director created legendary stop-motion films in Prague during the 1940s and 50s.
007skaty Assemble and pose your mini monster to discover how animators bring characters to life.
Insect actors: The first puppet stop-motion film, made in 1912 by Ladislas Starevich, used actual preserved beetle carcasses wired with joints.
An animation technique in which physical objects are incrementally manipulated and photographed frame by frame to create the illusion of movement. In 1898, Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton first showcased this technique using toy circus figures.
What is the name of the metal skeleton inside a claymation puppet that allows it to hold its shape?
Which British studio created the beloved claymation characters Wallace and Gromit?
007skaty Claymation artists mold plasticine clay to bring stop-motion characters to life
How did Jirí Trnka convey different emotions in his puppets without changing their facial expressions?
Which Czech animator was nicknamed the Walt Disney of Eastern Europe for his poetic puppet films?
What was the name of the stop-motion process invented by Ray Harryhausen to blend monsters with live actors?
How many skeleton warriors did Ray Harryhausen animate frame-by-frame for the famous battle in Jason and the Argonauts?
Which stop-motion studio pioneered the use of rapid 3D printing for puppet faces in the 2009 film Coraline?