claymation

Image: Aardman Animations/NetflixAardman Animations has been defined by its clay animation techniques. Known as Newplast plasticine, it’s been used since the studio’s inception back in 1972, and have been used in all their productions, from the Wallace & Gromit shorts to more recent fare like Star Wars Visions and Shaun the Sheep. You know you’re watching an Aardman production when you see it, and it’s hard to imagine them not doing claymation.The Hunger Games Director Francis Lawrence on Adapting a PrequelBut…

One of the best things about the holiday season is spending some quality time with your family and revisiting those classic Christmas specials like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town. These beloved claymation Christmas movies, and several others that have been released over the years, have become staples of the season for a lot of us, traditions that we just can’t bring ourselves to break.But keeping track of those specials and movies (especially when it comes to the various ways to watch…

Vancouver-based artist Kimmortal dropped their latest single “This Dyke” today along with a claymation video showing them riding a motorbike with their partner.The self-produced song is a queer anthem primed for the clubs with its booming bass and Kimmortal’s unsettling whispery delivery.“I wanted to create a sexy banger for the dykes, for femmes, for my queer community, and ultimately for me because I have never fully leaned into expressing my queer sexuality in a track and my journey of getting here is what I am most…

After releasing his collaborative album Boulangerie with Nicholas Craven in May, Brampton rapper Raz Fresco hasn’t pumped the breaks, releasing the claymation video for their track “Stolen Goods.”The idea of a claymation video came about when M Works, one of Fresco’s close collaborators, approached him about potentially making a full-length video in that style. “All throughout the year the construction of everything seen in the video was meticulously taking place,” Fresco said in an email about the video. “I would get…

This documentary about animation maven Will Vinton, whose medium of preference was clay filmed in stop motion, covers his remarkable career in detail, with expected reverence. Strictly as a documentary it’s conventional and a bit snoozy, but animation geeks will revel in the chance it affords to learn more about Vinton, a mostly genial chap who nevertheless had some sharp corners to his character. While the narrative mostly follows a straight-ahead, chronological path through Vinton’s biography, the story comes with a…

Image: Adult SwimWe’ve seen Rick and Morty in Claymation form before, but never in a standalone Claymation short—until now. That’s all thanks to Lee Hardcastle, the animator who created a string of sci-fi parodies for the smash-hit series before Adult Swim tapped him to create this year’s Halloween special.While fans wait for Rick and Morty proper to return from hiatus—the rest of season six begins November 20—they can enjoy Hardcastle’s creepy, surreal “Summer’s Sleepover” as a little holiday treat. io9 got a chance to…

There’s something about stop-motion animation as a medium – perhaps the choppy, lurching quality of the movement – which seems to lend itself to stories featuring reanimated corpses. From Ray Harryhausen’s skeleton armies to Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie and Corpse Bride, and now director Henry Selick’s Wendell & Wild: all feature the dead, in various stages of decomposition, cavorting around the living world, shedding limbs and claymation eyeballs as they go.In this case, the dead are raised thanks to the meddling of…