Clay Animation, Stop Motion Links and More
Links that deal with more traditional puppets besides clay.
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Heeza is a French/English web page that deals in anything related to comics, animation, and cinema. Since the site is in French you may wish to use Alta Vista to translate it into your own language. They carry some cool 1932 King Kong flip books. |
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Get intimate with Ray Harryhausen in this nice long interview by Ruth and Roger Whiter. They talk about his beginnings as an animator and his working with Willis O'Brien |
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This blog follows the progress of SuperBattle, my ongoing stop-motion project. I also want to share information, links and stories relating to my experience in the stop-motion community. I hope you will enjoy it! I have worked professionally as an animator/animation director/director for over 15 years. |
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This site is the first place you need to go to learn about the Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer, and Art Clokey. |
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Pantomime is expression through bodily poses. The free book download gives examples of how to do just that. It's especially helpful if your animating a puppets with little to no facial expressions. Paul Berry "the Sandman" was an expert in this field which is why he was such a great animator. |
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At Last, Foam Puppet Fabrication Explained! Check out this How-To page from Tom Brierton, on creating foam latex characters, with instructions on building ball and socket armatures. |
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Expert stop motion animator Barry Purves "Mars Attacks, Rigoletto" has a new site for his announcements and appearances, as well as many images of his work. He has a forum and gallery too. |
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Keith J. Brett's blog, art, stop motion film clips and pictures of his meeting with Ray Harryhausen. |
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Mike Brent's official blog that talks about his projects, other peoples projects, eastern Euoropean stop motion and theory. A good place to visit often. |
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Mike Brents web site which features a blog and mainly Eastern European styled stop motion animation information. He has many videos to download of some rare scenes. |
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The Official web site for Davey and Goliath. Has a store, news, a DVD and more. |
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David Allens King Kong Interview David Allen is interviewed about the creation of his King Kong remake as a TV commercial. There's tons of cool pictures and lots of questions and answers by the master himself. |
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Ein Stop Motion Film Entsteht "German Site" An informative site in Germany detailing the stop motion process through a blog. |
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Jeff created this site about Nightmare Before Christmas. It's been archived and this link is all that is left. Was one of the best. |
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My primary profession is character animation. Here you will find examples of my painting, photography, sculpture, and filmmaking. |
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Kathi Zung - Zung Studio "Foam Latex" Kathi makes a DVD on how to create foam latex puppets. Her work besides "Celebrity Deathmatch" includes making puppets for Nike commercials, doing work for Nickelodeon, HBO, MTV Germany, and other various independent projects. She made puppets for the Thanksgiving Special episode of the "Bernie Mac Show" for the Fox Television Network. She worked on the "Davey and Goliath Snowboard Christmas Special", doing puppet work and a few voices too! |
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Here is a great page on the mystery surrounding the remains of all the artifacts behind the King Kong film by John Michlig. |
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These guys are top notch in puppet and set building techniques. |
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With a handful of tools that you may already have, you could be on your way to building your own puppet armatures. |
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Nick Holligos has a really beautiful gallery of how-to information, sets, rigs, lighting and more. Don't pass this one up! |
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