I’ve always thought that one of the appeals of stop-motion claymation was the imperfections in the animation, how things never quite moved as fluidly as real life. After watching this short from ...

Bristol, U.K.-based Aardman Animations has denied a story in The Telegraph claiming that the studio won’t have enough clay to make films after its upcoming Wallace & Gromit feature for Netflix. The ...

Way back in the 1990s, as violent fighting games like Mortal Kombat were enthralling kids and worrying their parents, one series tried to buck the trend. With their roster of goofy circus-freak ...

His innovative stop-motion animation influenced a generation of filmmakers, including the creators of Wallace and Gromit. By Michael S. Rosenwald Eli Noyes, a filmmaker whose use of clay and sand in ...

Early childhood is like being drunk, we learn in the stop-motion animated feature “Memoir of a Snail”: “Everyone remembers what you did except you.” Ah, but later childhood, that’s where the most ...

Eli Noyes, the Oscar-nominated animator who revolutionized stop-motion filmmaking with his innovative use of clay and sand, has died. He was 81. Noyes died Saturday of complications from prostate ...