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Trailer: Early Man From Aardman Animations The Aardman Animations team has always been unique in terms of their film production. By this point, we know them for the great releases such as Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep or our favourite: Pirates! Band of Misfits (2010). What is certain is that the world will get […]
Ok, so you’ve done your puppet drawing, you’ve nailed down your story board and perhaps even your animatic and you can’t wait to start animating! Apart from getting all those props for your stop motion set, you need to get the armature for your character but where do you start? Wire armature? Ball and socket […]
Top 6 stop motion artists We love stop motion as it’s one of the most beautiful and truly unique forms of animation out there. There are some stop motion artists that create a new line of amazing animation that many follow and imitate. With this compilation, we bring to you our Top 6 Stop […]
Stop motion tutorial: How to make a ball and socket tail In this tutorial we’ll try to explain how to make a ball and socket tail for your stop motion armature to give that “feline” effect. Materials needed Threaded lollies Single joints Dremel tool with metal cutting disk and grinder (or metal saw) Threadlocker glue high strength […]
Tim: Stop motion armature kit We’d like to talk a little about our stop motion armature kit Tim, offering outstanding value for money as it’s packed with many incredible features such as 4 tie down points and 8 rigging points no less and being a stop motion armature kit, you can assemble and customise it to your own […]
Stop motion trailer: Hell and Back (2015) Hell and Back is an R-rated stop motion comedy scheduled for release on the 9th of October 2015. From the directors Tom Gianas and Ross Shuman who are known for movies such as Robot Chicken or Robot Chicken: Star Wars and TV shows such as Saturday Night Live come this new stop motion animation full […]
Stop motion tutorial: How to make wire hands If you’d like to learn how to make wire hands for your next stop motion armature and puppet, you’ve arrived to the right place. The stop motion hands we’ll show you are wire hands, which are simple and cost effective to make. We’ll also show how to attach these hands […]
Stop Motion Tutorial: Eyes Blink Today it’s time for a quick stop motion tutorial about eye blinking. The animation of the eyes is very important when animating a character. The eyes give your character soul, make your character alive even when is not moving. Eye blinking is something we, humans and animals, do regularly to […]
The claymation adventure Armikrog out in August! We are very excited to learn that claymation adventure Armikrog will be out on the 18th of August 2015 for PC, Mac and Linux (UPDATE: the release has been postponed until the 8th of September to ensure bugs are minimal and fun is max!) A fascinating stop motion clay animated (claymation) point […]
The Little Prince second trailer released Back in December we shared with you the first trailer (in french) of this fantastic screen adaptation of the book The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) which was first published in 1943. This novella is the most translated in the French language, not only that, […]