Student stop-motion talent: reporting from the graduate shows
It’s graduate show time around the UK, as animation students prepare their showreels and reveal their creative work for probably the first time. Animation festivals rely heavily on graduate work for...
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Student stop-motion talent: Chloe Rodham – UCA Farnham
Stop.Frame is reporting on some of the student animation shows around the country over the next few weeks. First up is UCA Farnham graduate Chloe Rodham. Chloe is responsible for the standout film of...
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Happy birthday, Ray Harryhausen
Curses – just missed the stop-motion animation maestro’s 90th birthday yesterday (June 29th). Belated best wishes to the master of fantasy skeleton swordplay! This landmark coincides with a special...
View ArticleStikfas is going out of business – snap up your figures now!
Stikfas are small, articulated plastic figures that are a nice tool for anyone wanting to try out a quick stop-motion puppet animation. They clip together quickly and and are light and small for...
View ArticleAltar Boy
I wrote a while back that I was looking forward to seeing Gustavo Arteaga’s animation based on the track Altar Boy by Ricky Lee Jones. Gustavo was behind the award-winning Rapunzel’s Flight stop-motion...
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Doctor Knowgood at Bristol Encounters
Stop.Frame breaks its far-too-long silence with the news that Arnold Zwanenburg’s terrific stop-motion claymation film Doctor Knowgood has been accepted for showing at the Bristol Animated Encounters...
View ArticleDoctor Knowgood on Vimeo
Finally, fresh from his European debut in Bristol last month, here’s the monkey doctor himself – Doctor Knowgood treats another difficult case in his jungle dispensary.
View ArticleStudent stop-motion success: Chloe Rodham animates DeVotchKa music video
News just in from UCA Farnham animation graduate Chloe Rodham, whose excellent and haunting Smile was a standout film in the graduate shows last year. She’s just produced a stop-motion animated music...
View ArticleAxe falls on England animation funding
Click here to view the embedded video.Via @jessicakoppe comes a report on the Cartoon Brew web site that Arts Council England has cancelled its prestigious, 21-year-old Animate programme. According to...
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Stop.Frame blog – on hiatus
As any visitor will have realised, the Stop.Frame blog has not been updated in a while. This is because I have been so busy in the rest of my life that I have had no chance to watch animation – let...
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