Stikfas are small, articulated plastic figures that are a nice tool for anyone wanting to try out a quick stop-motion puppet animation. They clip together quickly and and are light and small for table-top animation (I find them a bit too light and small to work with, but many others create really interesting films with [...]
Curses – just missed the stop-motion animation maestro’s 90th birthday yesterday (June 29th). Belated best wishes to the master of fantasy skeleton swordplay! This landmark coincides with a special exhibition of his models and puppets at the London Film Museum on London’s South Bank. The Ray Harryhausen – Myths and Legends exhibition will be open [...]
Stop.Frame is reporting on some of the student animation shows around the country over the next few weeks. First up is UCA Farnham graduate Chloe Rodham. Chloe is responsible for the standout film of the UCA animation show this year – Smile – a story of frustrated love set in a travelling circus in the 1920s. It [...]
It’s graduate show time around the UK, as animation students prepare their showreels and reveal their creative work for probably the first time. Animation festivals rely heavily on graduate work for their shorts programme – so if you go to some of the leading graduate shows you’ll end up seeing a lot of the year’s [...]
I’m not usually a big fan of pixellation (animating the human body), but this is very well done – a music video of the track “Her Morning Elegance” by Oren Lavie. Typically, I’m so out of touch that this is totally new to me – but it won a deserved Grammy this year for best [...]
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Stop.Frame has been following the progress of Doctor Knowgood – a short puppet animation film by Dutch animator Arnold Zwanenburg, shot in Indonesia over the past six months or so. It’s taken a few weeks for Arnold to adjust to being back in Rotterdam, but he’s [...]
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; I’ve been following the progress of Dutch animator Arnold Zwanenburg, who has been shooting Doctor Knowgood, a stop motion puppet animation about a know-all monkey in a lab coat, in scenic Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The film is now finished, and had its premiere a couple of weeks ago [...]
It’s always nice to get some feedback from animators about Stop.Frame. Puppet animation is a bit neglected online, so the point about this blog is to publicise some of the animators working in the field and also give some practical help and advice to would-be stop-framers. So I was really pleased to receive a comment [...]
I’ve just come across the national Film Board of Canada’s repository of animated short films online. There are 319 of them (though Madame Tutli-Putli also has its trailer, for some reason, so that’s 318, I guess). They’re part of its wider collection of 1000+ live action, experimental and documentary films online. You can search the [...]
This is a bit off-topic for Stop.Frame, given that Tim Burton’s new Alice in Wonderland is a part live action and part digitally animated movie, but what the heck. Here’s my two-minute critique (warning: spoilers ahead). I did enjoy it – certainly much more than the other high-profile 3D movie phenomenon everyone has been talking [...]
