🎨👐 What makes Gromit's brow so expressive? For more than 50 years, Aardman Animations has built their #stopmotion characters from one specific type of clay called Newplast.

This #video follows the Aardman team through the studio to hear about the attributes that keep their characters moving like themselves, and why keeping those fingerprints matters.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/the-clay-that-makes-aardman-animations-come-to-life?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=the-clay-that-makes-aardman-animations-come-to-life

#art #animation #jobs #work #tksst

Inside the Race to Save the Clay Behind ‘Wallace & Gromit’ | WSJ - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgsft69o-xI

#animation #stopmotion

The Girl Who Cried Pearls - NFB
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The last of the #Oscars nominees for Animated Short Films. The best way I could find to show you is on @NFB 's website. And even then, it may be locked to only Canadian IPs. So if you are Canadian, please take the time to view this short.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/the-girl-who-cried-pearls/

For everyone else, I have included the trailer for it. Directed by Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRrAWHZLaD0

#Animation #TheGirlWhoCriedPearls #StopMotion #Canada

The skeleton fight from "Jason and the Argonauts"

https://tube.deadtom.me/w/iokXKm3cJkx9zrXyaVEjXc

Pretty great stop motion short film: "Playing God"

https://vimeo.com/1149031838

#shortfilm #stopmotion

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🎻🚂 Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten taught herself to play #guitar upside down as a left-handed child, creating a unique style that defined her #folk and #blues sound.

This #stopmotion #video brings her classic #song "Freight Train" to life through a performance by Aizuri Quartet.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/aizuri-quartet-freight-train-elizabeth-cotten-music-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=aizuri-quartet-elizabeth-cotten

#animation #kids #music #trains #travel #history #banjo #education #creativity #tksst

LAIKA Studios (the magic behind Coraline and Kubo) is back with Wildwood. The journey of True McKeel begins, exploring the secrets of Pittock Mansion. If the teaser is anything to go by, the effort = 100, the output = 100. Can't wait for this one.

#Wildwood #LAIKAStudios #StopMotion #Animation #Film

Akira en #Stopmotion
avec du papier !
(merci Thierry Falcoz et Catsuka pour le lien)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIL_CB_YjFk

#animation