How to make clay animation figures Art instructor, Ari Fish from the Kansas City Art Institute is back! She teaches us the art of making our own clay animation figures for stop animation.

Joan Gratz has worked in Portland's animation scene since its earliest days. She was one of the first employees at Will Vinton Studios and remembers creating clay figures for films and commercials in ...

EVERY TIME a California Raisin blinks an eye, there’s a human being with a hunk of clay and a dental tool — or maybe the top of a pen — to make him move. At least a dozen times in one second of a ...

PHILADELPHIA — “Slow” is not a powerful enough word to describe the process of creating a clay-animation feature film. Just ask Nick Park, creator of “Wallace & Gromit,” who spent five years working ...

DENVER — Randy Boyum has been playing with clay for more than 40 years. "I dabbled in clay animation as a 12-year-old in the mid-1970’s, producing a few truly horrible short films," Boyum, now 58, ...

Hope Mullinax is a freelance writer with over ten years of experience working for various publications. She is the Site Expert for Dork Side of the Force and previously a Star Wars contributor with ...

Aardman Animation, known for characters like Wallace and Gromit, has reassured fans that 'no need to worry' about them running out of clay. (DreamWorks Animation) Aardman Animation has shared a ...

After a while, watching animation anthologies is a bit like riffling through expensively executed greeting cards, each animated short a carefully crafted expression of a single, usually ...

Inside a cavernous office-park building in this southwest English city, dozens of grown-ups are moving goofy clay figures around like kids playing with their Barbies or GI Joes. A hundred miles away ...