| 'Bride' Stripped Bare | | "Corpse Bride" is a major stop motion film which extensively used digital SLR still cameras to capture each animated image. In the past, stop motion was single frame shot using motion picture film camera. This article describes the general workflow of using digital technology in stop motion applications. |
| Animation Toolworks | | 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 | | 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 | | 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! | | 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 | | 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 | | Description and photos showing the construction of stop motion animation puppet armature joints using common tools and basic metalworking methods. |
| Burman Industries, Inc. | | 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 | | Stop motion animation movies and pictures created with clay. [Some pages from this site not viewable with some browsers] |
| Clay Animation How-To Page | | A brief tutorial on how to make clay puppets and animate/film them. Many links to stop motion/puppet animation related web sites. |
| Clay Animation Made Easy | | Example of clay and stop motion animation used in an elementary school curriculum. Educators using this tactile animation medium to help encourage language, mathematical, logical, spatial, collaborative and creativity skills. |
| Darkstrider: Explorations in the Art of Stop Motion Animation | | Information about the European style of puppet animation in the more purer form where characters are stylized, surreal (as puppets), and are not represented as photo realistic. Site also includes ongoing diary of experimentations with stop motion methods. |
| Def Animations | | Showcasing animated movies by amateur clay animator who lives in Eygpt. Also includes brief behind the scenes of animation methods. |
| Do it Yourself Foam Latex Puppet Making 101 | | This video or dvd tutorial is available for purchase which shows the general basics of constructing a stop motion animation puppet using the clay sculpting & molding method, foam rubber latex casting, seaming, and final painting of the puppet. |
| FrameThief | | This is an inexpensive shareware stop motion animation program for the Apple/Macintosh platform, that enables the users, from novices to professionals, to capture and create animation. |
| From Art to Finished Puppet | | An Interview with head of the puppet department on Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride". Provides general overview descriptions and some photos about the creation of the animation puppets used in this 2005 Academy Award nominated stop motion feature film. |
| I Can Animate | | Designed for all ages, a software product especially designed for stop animation on the Mac OS X. Includes a variety of features for the creation of animation. The program has earned various recognition awards. |
| iStopMotion | | Easy to use Stop Motion animation software for Mac OS X. Allows you to use your computer and DV camcorder or USB webcams to capture single frames for stop motion or time lapse applications. |
| John Wright Modelmaking | | A special effects shop in England that designs and fabricates miniature models for use in puppet animation, offers ball and socket joint parts for do-it-yourself armature fabrication, and they also engineer custom stop motion animation armatures. |
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