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They have it all, humor, whit, and charm in Aarman's brilliant characters Wallace and Gromit.  Here they are promoting a domestic vacation with " Wallace and Gromit's Great UK Adventure ."  The ongoing campaign is sponsored both

Micro Mayhem is now 1 month old on since it was uploaded by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios on Vimeo.  Since its release, it has gained 630k views and is still at it...

Dot is an Aardman short film.  When it came out in 2010 it was the smallest stopmo ever, but, it was recently beaten by A Boy and His Atom , which I have covered in a previous post .  It's an amazing film, it's almost seems like it's on the size scale the book...

Hello, i'm back with another post.  So, this post is about a new project on Kickstarter ( Armikrog ).  Doug TenNapel is the creator of Armikrog.  Doug is working with Mike Dietz and Ed Schofield with Pencil Test Studios to finish this project.  Armikrog is a point and click game, in Stop Motion.  Doug TenNapel, is the creator of

Aardman animations:  http://www.aardman.com/ Banana Park:  http://www.bananapark.co.uk/ Beast Animation:  http://www.beastanimation.be/ Bent Image Lab:  http://www.bentimagelab.com/ Bix Pix:  http://www.bixpix.com/ Chido Bros.:  http://www.chiodobros.com/ The Clayman:  http://www.theclayman.com/

I am going to just jump into it today, so, bring on the festivals!!! First Film Festival is... Animation Block Party.  The tenth annual animation festival runs July 25-28, 2013 in Brooklyn.  ABP is open for festival submissions until May 31, 2013.  Prizes include

Today, on Stopmotion geek we are going old school, and I really mean old school.  Why this is so old is that were discovering, well, your discovering, I'm giving you info that I already know, so, you know, not really discovering... so what, I can rediscover, mmmhun!  Georges Melies, was the first-ever Stop Motion animator, in fact, he invented Stop Motion; therefore, we'll

Recently, I looked at the Stoopid Buddy Stoodios website , and what I found is a interview with Nick Naveda and Molly Flick.  Nick, is an assistant to Seth Green (Robot

So, as I promised I will NOT check up on DOGNAUTS and HOUSE OF MONSTERS , instead,

Webster Colcord, is an animator in Stop Motion, 2D animation, and CGI, so, a jack of all trades guy.  Webster, now lives in Los Angeles.  He has a home studio

Professor Kilq - Plastic and Flashing Lights is an music video that is AWESOME!!!   It is about a guy made form wire walking through a road full of white pillars, the white pillars react

Yes, I said it SpongeBob Christmas , you may be thinking right now: why is he talking about SpongeBob?  Well, that is because it is Stop Motion and

Obviously, I will teach you all I know and I will continue to do my best, but I can't teach you everything.  So, you can go to  animation-tutorials.wonderhowto.com  which I still...

The first wonderful film we have today is, Out of a Forest .   Out of a Forest caught my eye because of were they shot the film, it appears and is evident that it was shot a night in an actual forest! - The video is about five

Tim Burton's Vincent  is a masterpiece; the short was animated by the brilliant Stephen Chiodo .  I do love that the short was shot in black and white film, ask any true film-lover and

News, news, news, oh! hello, didn't see you there, just looking at the news on my modern newspaper - a laptop.  So, we all love  Gumby , all 50 years of him, so to celebrate how much we love  Art Clokey , who am I kidding?!  Just go rent/watch Gumby Dharma, which will tell you the entire history of Art Clokey and Gumby, that's bananas!

Yes, it is that time again, time for the 'Second Monthly SMG Awards!'  Let me serve you them on a platter, yes, a platter, I was seriously considering PES's KaBoom , but as life would have it we will have to give

In all of about 10 minutes, Sweet Dreams – a short film by American animator Kirsten Lepore, transports you to a world completely fabricated and populated by food, making you laugh, cry and crave sweets all at once. Sweet Dreams follows the exploits of a curious cupcake on his journey from his own candy-crafted land to an isle populated entirely with vegetables, then back again. The film’s set an characters were also made almost entirely from food – decorated by various sweets such as ice cream cones, sugar cubes and Liquorice (among others), while also featuring a Smorgasbord of vegetables. The film – written, directed and animated by Kirsten Lepore, a young animator based in Los Angeles – was Lepore’s undergrad thesis project while at the Maryland Institute College of Art, taking her nine months to complete. The film sets nicely as the first in her ever-growing repertoire of stop motion films, her later short films entitled Bottle and Move Mountain , the latter of whi...

The first thing that we are going to have a family discussion about, yeah right, who am I kidding?!  Were going to watch the CAL ARTS film selections of

So, I'll cover the script first, then the art. The story follows Indian, Cowboy, and Horse, after Cowboy & Indian realize that they haven't bought Horse a

Yes, finally The Simpsons are in stopmo, oh, wait, I already said this in another post.  Stoopid Buddy Stoodios has posted the couch gag they

 The Aardman podcast is the sweet moma, AWESOME behind the scenes, mmmm mmmm you can taste the Stop Motion goodness, the goodness is

So, now I get it - i'm the guy you count on to find awesome stopmo videos?  Well I have adopted that responsibility and here's your video.  So the first Stop Motion film to use

The Trailer ... The Apostle , is a Spanish Stop Motion feature film and it is also the first Spanish film to be in 3D.  The film, has yet to

Stoopid Buddy Stoodios has done it again, made an awesome video that screams: "Friggining' awesome! They shot the entire 00:01:50 video on a modified spy camera!

I was incredibly impressed with   Peter and the Wolf which is a 2006 Stop Motion short film,

PES is an Stop Motion film maker, he has made shorts such as  Fresh Guacamole ,  Western Spaghetti , and  Game Over .  He lives in a minuscule New York apartment

House of Monsters is a short film, created by Dawn Brown.  Dawn Brown graduated form The University of Kansas (it is sort of hard not to think of the Wizard of Oz when you hear Kansas) she has designed sets and been part of the art department on films including:  Star Trek,

All right, the first meal on the stopmo menu is - paper mouths, (more importantly, how to paper mouths) Robot Chicken, South Park, and Titan Maximum all use replacement animation to animate mouths, so,

So, I thought that it would be a good idea to dedicate a post to Cracking Contraptions , the short Wallace & Gromit films were used as a sort of a 'warm-up' for the animators to

Press molds (a name conjured up by animators & model makers alike) are exactly what they sound like, a mold in which you press Plasticine or other clay-like materials into the negative mold,

Again, very depressed, not much to say, a gap of emptiness inside of me.  Ray Harryhausen, is gone.  NOBODY (under twenty) realized how  incredible Ray's films were.

The Stop-motion  Brisk Iced Tea  commercials are awesome, so before you start reading this article, go watch the actual videos:  Danny Trejo as Machete ,  Yoda vs. Darth Maul ,  Eminem Super Bowl

Normally, I would only talk about one animation company at a time, well, I guess that i'll talk about two.  The first company is Loose Moose LTD, in 1994, Glenn Holberton started Loose Moose with award winning director Ken Lidster.  Together they established themselves as

The first bit of succulence stopmo goodness that will give you something to feast your eye-sockets on, is that Stoopid Buddy Stoodios  (which a studio that near & dear to my heart) will return, and

In 1958, when Phil Tippett was seven years old, his parents took him to see a movie at a Theater near his home in Berkeley, California.  The film, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, was filled with spectacular special effects and Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion animation.  Phil remembers the day vividly and asserts that the film changed his life.  He fell in love with the spectacle, and was particularly fascinated with the stopmo aspect of it all.  By the time he was thirteen years old, he had spent

T he BoxTrolls is LAIKA's third feature film, there others were: Coraline , and ParaNorman .   The BoxTrolls , is based on the novel Here be Monsters!  written and illustrated by Allen Snow.  (I, yesterday in fact, read this novel, so I have decided to tell you if I liked  Here be Monsters! , or not.)

WHAT!  What did you say?  There is a  Simpson's couch gag in stopmo!  YES!  I have been a longtime fan of The Simpsons , you know, we all have grown up with them, but now finally, there in stop-motion.  The episode airs on Sunday, May 12 at 8/7c on Fox.

We all love the brilliant original comic strip Spy vs. Spy, that's has been around, who knows how long, is in stopmo!

In case you didn't know the 1987 film RoboCop is part stop-motion

Animation Block is an annual animation party in which you will find great animated videos (stopmo, CGI, hand-drawn)

Shel and Justin Rasch have been in sopmo for several years now, there first project entitled Gerald's Last Day .  After that Justin was an animator on the feature film ParaNorman , the completion after that project lead them to make DOGONAUNTS which they have finished filming and

I know that I have a lot of posts concerning armatures, well here's another.

Yes the rumors are true, the World's smallest move ( also referred to as "A Boy And His Atom") is in stop-motion.  What do you call one of the smallest particles that makes up everything?  I know don't tell me - an Atom!  good job, I failed in science!  but in all seriousness go check out the video http://youtu.be/oSCX78-8-q0 ... BTS link:  http://youtu.be/xA4QWwaweWA

LAIKA/house made an array of stopmo commercials for Planters, you know, the company that makes the peanuts in your pantry.  The commercials are awesome, and with Robert Downeny Jr.