Clay animation has brought raisins to life, helped a character named Gumby hug a horse named Pokey and, with this weekend’s opening of the film “Chicken Run,” allowed a dozen plump chickens to tackle ...

IN 1999, when director Nick Park was in production on his stop-motion animated feature “Chicken Run,” the conventional wisdom in Hollywood held that computer-generated films such as “Toy Story” and “A ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the incredible modern tech available for movie making today, traditional stop-motion, or stop-frame, work remains one of the most engaging animation styles for many viewers. It involves a lot ...