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, ...
Clay animation has brought raisins to life, helped a character named Gumby hug a horse named Pokey and, with this weekend’s opening of the film “Chicken Run,” allowed a dozen plump chickens to tackle ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stop-motion cartoons may seem a bit old school for a super-high-tech graphics event like SIGGRAPH. But the brains behind 'Shaun the Sheep Movie' are there to offer a warning: "Danger if you take ...
From the hypnotic surrealism of The Vandal to the monochrome precision of Perfect, filmmaker Eddie Alcazar has never shied away from blending form and function. But his latest animated short, Bullet ...
Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell ...
Aardman Animation, known for characters like Wallace and Gromit, has reassured fans that 'no need to worry' about them running out of clay. (DreamWorks Animation) Aardman Animation has shared a ...
A clay-animated Jesus may sound preposterous, especially when you consider the pitfalls of a clay-animated crucifixion on Easter, but ABC’s The Miracle Maker turns a nervy approach into often ...