Animation - Stop-Motion

Animation Express: Stop Motion Animations
Animation - Stop-Motion
Examples submitted by beginning and amateur stop motion animators. Requires QuickTime player.

Animation Toolworks
Animation - Stop-Motion
This company offers the LunchBox Sync which is a dedicated frame/image capturing device to provide instant feedback for animators. Many uses include syncing for pencil tests or stop motion, also for demo reels, previews, animatics, reference tests, student projects, festival entries, and web animation.

Animation und Puppenbau - Juergen Kling
Animation - Stop-Motion
Studio in Germany offering stop motion animation production services, ball-socket armatures, puppetmaking, sets, props, and modelmaking. There is also English version of this site.

Armaverse
Animation - Stop-Motion
Stop motion animation armature parts and kits for building a variety of jointed armatures such as humans, elephants, and grasshoppers. Affordable prices for those starting in puppet animation.

At Last, Foam Puppet Fabrication Explained!
Animation - Stop-Motion
Article from Animation World Magazine. An overview of the general methods used in stop motion puppet fabrication starting from design, then machining jointed armature, sculpting, molding, and foam latex rubber casting.

Bricks In Motion
Animation - Stop-Motion
This site is about the specialty area of using the Lego building brick components of this modular build-it-yourself toy system and bringing them to animated life using stop motion animation methods. Includes how-to information and tutorials.

Building Ball-Socket Armatures
Animation - Stop-Motion
Description and photos showing the construction of stop motion animation puppet armature joints using common tools and basic metalworking methods.

Burman Industries, Inc.
Animation - Stop-Motion
This company offers materials, supplies, how-to videos and books for prosthetic/animatronic special effects, which use many similar fabrication techniques to create stop motion animation puppets.

Clay Animation & Sculpture
Animation - Stop-Motion
Stop motion animation movies and pictures created with clay. [Some pages from this site not viewable with some browsers]

Clay Animation How-To Page
Animation - Stop-Motion
A brief tutorial on how to make clay puppets and animate/film them. Many links to stop motion/puppet animation related web sites.

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