Clay Animation, Stop Motion Links and More

Anthony Scott "Animator"

Animated on many top feature films using stop motion. Description: Stop-motion Animation was Anthony's first career choice. At age eleven, inspired by the 1933 original King Kong, Ray Harryhausen's mythical monsters from the Sinbad movies and the Rankin/Bass annual Christmas specials such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, he began experimenting with this form of animation using a bare-bones Kodak Super-8 camera. He spent the next few years making short live-action and animated films in his garage and backyard, casting his family and friends. After high school, he attended Lansing Community College in Michigan and gained experience with 16mm film production.

Bill O'Neil

Bill O’Neil is a commercial director based in Chicago under the banner of O’Neil Productions. He spent ten years in Los Angeles working in effects and animation and was the last stop motion animator of The Pillsbury Doughboy before the little nerf blob found a new identity in CGI.

Bob Deaver

Having worked for The University of Advancing Technology, Calibre Digital Pictures, Vinton Studios, and The Art Institute of Portland, Bob Deaver is a well rounded computer artist and character animator. He has the vivid imagination and impeccable eye to bring your concepts to life. His commitment to quality results in distinctly unique designs and emotion-filled animations.

Dan Fissel Custom Music - Jingles, Commercial Soundtracks, Production Music Beds

Original Music Scores for Radio and TV. Jingles, Film Scores, Soundtracks, Production Beds, as well as Non-Union Voice-Talent.

Gautry.org "French/English"

Art interactif, Scénarios de dessins animés, Cinéma d'animation: animated movies, interactive arts this site presents my work in cg, puppets and animation

Goguetoons "Character Design"

Gogue is an artist out of Spain who designs and sculpts characters based on pictures you send him. He has also done tons of book and magazine illustrations. Every time I see his work it gets better.

Misha Klein "Animator"

Misha is a stop motion animator in California with some of the most expressive puppet poses. Very realistic and zany stuff. Has worked on lots of high profile pieces.

Phil Dale "Animator UK"

Phil has animated, directed, and supervised on numerous commercials, employing both stop-motion and CG animation techniques, and as a live action director Phil has written and produced several short films. He is currently writing and developing feature lengh projects. Phil is a lead creative in development at Laika Entertainment.

Random Animation "Denver USA"

Random Animation is a stop-motion studio in Denver, Colorado specializing in clay animation short films and commericals. Below are several stills and brief descriptions of projects that have emerged from the studio since January, 2000.

Red Nosed Studio "Animator/Designer"

Chris Sickels Illustration and stop motion animation projects. Plenty of pictures to look at.

Robert Vowles

For over twenty years Robert Vowles has created sets and models that are out of this world, for some of Canada's most dynamic ad agencies. Primarily working in miniature, he tackles the most unusual projects with economy, speed and imagination. Sculpting with a diversity of materials, from ceramics and latex rubber to Sculpey and hot melt glue, he creates people, creatures, monsters and animals.

Tom Brierton "Armature Machinist"

Tom is a great guy and well known for his armature kits on ebay. Also gives workshops from time to time.

Voltaire

Voltaire is a director/animator specializing in stop-motion animation. Inspired by the films of Ray Harryhausen(Jason and the Argonauts, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad), Voltaire began animating at the age of ten on a super8 camera. At that time, he says,"no three dimensional object was safe. My brother's action figures, my sister's dolls, silverware, etc...If it was missing, chances were that it was in the basement in front of my camera".

Web Crowell's Panic Button Pictures

Panic Button Pictures is the preoccupied world of award winning Animator Webster Crowell; Tactile, obsessive films about things which occasionally grow too big for their cages.

Webster Colcord "Animator/Director"

Webster Colcord has worked as a professional animator since 1987, starting with Will Vinton Studios in Portland, Oregon. He has worked for various studios including Disney, Fox, Warner Bros., from 1997-2002 at PDI/ Dreamworks, and is currently an animation lead at Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores, California. WebsterÂ’s feature animation credits include James and the Giant Peach, Antz, Monkeybone, Evolution, Minority Report, and Matrix Revolutions. He has also produced commercials and his own short films, many of which have toured with the Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. Some of the techniques used in his work include live action, stop motion animation, cel, and computer animation.

Tony Merrithew "Sculptor, Painter, Animator"

I've been an animator at Will Vinton "Claymation" studios (now Laika Entertainment)for twenty years and have animated hundreds of scenes for film and television and sculpted probably twice that many characters. I'm currently sculpting characters at Laika for a new stop motion feature film due out in the theaters for 2008.

Ron Cole: Puppet Maker/Animator

Ron Cole is one of the few who can do everything from build puppets, sets, animate and the technique of Dynamation.

Nick Loquens

Stop Motion Animation Services: •Bespoke Model Making.•Sculpting.•Set building.•Prop making.•Stop motion puppet making.•Conceptual Designing.•Storyboarding.