How to make clay animation figures Art instructor, Ari Fish from the Kansas City Art Institute is back! She teaches us the art of making our own clay animation figures for stop animation.

Joan Gratz has worked in Portland's animation scene since its earliest days. She was one of the first employees at Will Vinton Studios and remembers creating clay figures for films and commercials in ...

EVERY TIME a California Raisin blinks an eye, there’s a human being with a hunk of clay and a dental tool — or maybe the top of a pen — to make him move. At least a dozen times in one second of a ...

PHILADELPHIA — “Slow” is not a powerful enough word to describe the process of creating a clay-animation feature film. Just ask Nick Park, creator of “Wallace & Gromit,” who spent five years working ...

DENVER — Randy Boyum has been playing with clay for more than 40 years. "I dabbled in clay animation as a 12-year-old in the mid-1970’s, producing a few truly horrible short films," Boyum, now 58, ...

The legendary stop-motion house said it has been working for "quite some time" to secure new modeling clay suppliers before current pipelines dry out. From pandemic-induced supply chain backlogs to ...

After a while, watching animation anthologies is a bit like riffling through expensively executed greeting cards, each animated short a carefully crafted expression of a single, usually ...