When you are trying to create puppet characters for your stop-frame animation, it’s all-too easy to just look at other people’s animation efforts for inspiration. But don’t! Look further afield and you can come up with rich sources of ideas to help you develop striking and original characters. (Well, original in that you haven’t lifted them [...]
I just received an email through Stop.Frame from someone starting up in animation who’d found the blog and wondered if I could share some thoughts on his first attempts at making a claymation/puppet film. James kindly says: I would like you to know how important blogs like yours are for people like my who are [...]
I’ve just found out from Google that everyone’s favourite claymation characters are 20 years old today (or thereabouts). Well, everyone apart from the ones who really, really like Morph. Altough that can’t be many – surely? But two decades? That’s the most frightening thing I’ve heard this week.
