Clay Animation, Stop Motion Links and More

Web Link	Hits
Aberle Films Past Will Vinton Studios animator. Best known for internationally award-winning animated short films (from a spirited computer-animated dog to stop-motion characters built out of pipe cleaners), Aberle Films is also a strong creative source for commercials, television and feature films. Come in and explore!	655
Anifex "Australian" Anifex is an Australian studio. Their web site has a nice "short films" page with lots of pictures. They use stop motion, clay , and 2-D animations.	521
http://www.myspace.com/animateclay The official Animateclay.com Myspace page. It's a good way to network with other fans of clay and stop motion animation.	539
Animation Jones John Logue's Home Page & Director's Reel. Contains tons of great clay on glass, regular clay animation and stop motion movies to download.	492
Bears Animation I have been doing stop-motion animation since 1993. I use clay figures and supplement them with material for clothes and miniatures for props.	553
Bright Eye Pictures Creators of the Monster Road documentary, a must see: "Monster Road explores the dazzling and fantastic worlds of legendary underground clay animator Bruce Bickford. Tracing the origins of Bickford's wildly unique sensibility, the film journeys back to his childhood in a competitive household during the paranoia of the Cold War and examines his relationship with his father, George, a retired aerospace engineer who is facing the onset of Alzheimer's Disease. Along with a glimpse into the world of a true visionary, the film reveals a story that, like childhood itself, is at once scary and funny, sad and baffling."	466
Bruce Bickford's Official Site "Bruce Bickford was born in 1947 in Seattle Washington. He began animating clay in the summer of 1964 at the age of 17. He graduated from high school in 1965; and engaged in military service from 1966 to 1969. Upon his return he resumed animation, and did his first line animation in 1970, then in 1973 he went looking for work in Los Angeles-where he met Frank Zappa. He worked for him from 1974 through 1980. Afterwards, he returned to Seattle and resumed animating mostly his own personal work."	483
Clay Animation Station Clay Animation Station is a culmination of approximately six months of hard and earnest work between two high school students and one middle school student with the help of two coaches. Everyone participating in this team is from Franklin County, Virginia. This project was submitted as an entry in ThinkQuest (1998), an annual contest that challenges students to use the Internet as a collaborative teaching and learning tool.	596
Claymation Years One of the best sites about the Vinton Claymation years is Vince Backeburg's site.	504
Cooked Films Cooked Films is a project that fills each and every minute of time between school and work. We are based in a small country called New Zealand. I have always enjoyed making films, particularly Clay Animations, this website is a place were I can post my work onto the internet.	432
Dragomir Nikolic's Clay Animation Page Dragomir Nikolic has a web site with nicely designed characters. The designs are very inspiring so check them out.	412
Faire Ses Jouets Lots of pictures and movies to watch here. You have to pick if you want it in English or French.	414
Flm D'Animation The Film D'Animation site has a lot of nice stylized sculptures to look at.	434
Gumby World Videos, Links, Credits, Shopping and more about the popular green guy Gumby!	422
J-E Nystrom's Animato site J-E NystrÃ¶m's web page has a lot of great overall animation how-to information, from cel animation to clay animation. He even shows you how to modify a Bolex 16mm camera, and build a synchronous motor for it.	394
Jim Allen Studios - Set Work If you want to view some really amazing set work, go no further then Jim Allan's studio.	453
Jim Goodman's Clay Projects Jim Goodman has a site with little to no info on his creations. He does however have tons of pictures! I especially like his Manny character.	398
Knox Korner/Bad Idea Pictures Knox creates some of the lowest budget films, has poor animation - but his work is extremely funny stuff. The site's movies are good for laughs. Also makes live action comedy films.	425
Mark Osborne's More The Academy-Award® nominated animated short-film tells the story of a lonely inventor, whose colorless existence is brightened only by dreams of the carefree bliss of his youth.	397
Michael Granberry "I've always been a HUGE fan of H.P.Lovecraft, so it was inevitable that I would attempt to adapt one of his stories to the screen! FROM BEYOND is currently being submitted to film festivals around the country..."	402

Past Will Vinton Studios animator. Best known for internationally award-winning animated short films (from a spirited computer-animated dog to stop-motion characters built out of pipe cleaners), Aberle Films is also a strong creative source for commercials, television and feature films. Come in and explore!

655

Anifex "Australian"

Anifex is an Australian studio. Their web site has a nice "short films" page with lots of pictures. They use stop motion, clay , and 2-D animations.

521

http://www.myspace.com/animateclay

The official Animateclay.com Myspace page. It's a good way to network with other fans of clay and stop motion animation.

539

Animation Jones

John Logue's Home Page & Director's Reel. Contains tons of great clay on glass, regular clay animation and stop motion movies to download.

492

Bears Animation

I have been doing stop-motion animation since 1993. I use clay figures and supplement them with material for clothes and miniatures for props.

553

Bright Eye Pictures

Creators of the Monster Road documentary, a must see: "Monster Road explores the dazzling and fantastic worlds of legendary underground clay animator Bruce Bickford. Tracing the origins of Bickford's wildly unique sensibility, the film journeys back to his childhood in a competitive household during the paranoia of the Cold War and examines his relationship with his father, George, a retired aerospace engineer who is facing the onset of Alzheimer's Disease. Along with a glimpse into the world of a true visionary, the film reveals a story that, like childhood itself, is at once scary and funny, sad and baffling."

466

Bruce Bickford's Official Site

"Bruce Bickford was born in 1947 in Seattle Washington. He began animating clay in the summer of 1964 at the age of 17. He graduated from high school in 1965; and engaged in military service from 1966 to 1969. Upon his return he resumed animation, and did his first line animation in 1970, then in 1973 he went looking for work in Los Angeles-where he met Frank Zappa. He worked for him from 1974 through 1980. Afterwards, he returned to Seattle and resumed animating mostly his own personal work."

483

Clay Animation Station

Clay Animation Station is a culmination of approximately six months of hard and earnest work between two high school students and one middle school student with the help of two coaches. Everyone participating in this team is from Franklin County, Virginia. This project was submitted as an entry in ThinkQuest (1998), an annual contest that challenges students to use the Internet as a collaborative teaching and learning tool.

596

Claymation Years

One of the best sites about the Vinton Claymation years is Vince Backeburg's site.

504

Cooked Films

Cooked Films is a project that fills each and every minute of time between school and work. We are based in a small country called New Zealand. I have always enjoyed making films, particularly Clay Animations, this website is a place were I can post my work onto the internet.

432

Dragomir Nikolic's Clay Animation Page

Dragomir Nikolic has a web site with nicely designed characters. The designs are very inspiring so check them out.

412

Faire Ses Jouets

Lots of pictures and movies to watch here. You have to pick if you want it in English or French.

414

Flm D'Animation

The Film D'Animation site has a lot of nice stylized sculptures to look at.

434

Gumby World

Videos, Links, Credits, Shopping and more about the popular green guy Gumby!

422

J-E Nystrom's Animato site

J-E NystrÃ¶m's web page has a lot of great overall animation how-to information, from cel animation to clay animation. He even shows you how to modify a Bolex 16mm camera, and build a synchronous motor for it.

394

Jim Allen Studios - Set Work

If you want to view some really amazing set work, go no further then Jim Allan's studio.

453

Jim Goodman's Clay Projects

Jim Goodman has a site with little to no info on his creations. He does however have tons of pictures! I especially like his Manny character.

398

Knox Korner/Bad Idea Pictures

Knox creates some of the lowest budget films, has poor animation - but his work is extremely funny stuff. The site's movies are good for laughs. Also makes live action comedy films.

425

Mark Osborne's More

The Academy-Award® nominated animated short-film tells the story of a lonely inventor, whose colorless existence is brightened only by dreams of the carefree bliss of his youth.

397

Michael Granberry

"I've always been a HUGE fan of H.P.Lovecraft, so it was inevitable that I would attempt to adapt one of his stories to the screen! FROM BEYOND is currently being submitted to film festivals around the country..."

402