Claymation

Aardman Animations Is Running Out of Its Iconic Clay

After splurging to grab all the clay from a closing factory, the studio's supply is reaching its end as it works on a new Wallace & Gromit movie.

Movies Justin Carter Nov 19

Claymation Artist Behind California Raisins and The Noid Dies at 70

You might not know the name Will Vinton. But if you grew up watching TV in the 1980s and 90s, you definitely know his work. Vinton was the genius behind claymation characters like the California Raisins, the Domino’s Noid, and the M&M’s before they were taken over by CGI. Vinton died yesterday of cancer after…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 5

These Belko Experiment Claymation Shorts Are Disgusting in the Best Possible Way

If the gushing rivers of blood in these claymation shorts can make your stomach churn, just imagine how you’ll react while viewing the live-action film that inspired them. We’re excited to exclusively debut these shorts by animator Lee Hardcastle, whose work appeared in The ABCs of Death. Each features exaggerated versions of The Belko Experiment’s…

Movies Germain Lussier Mar 15

This Short Stop-Motion Clay Animation Is Fantastically Fluid

I’ve always thought that one of the appeals of stop-motion claymation was the imperfections in the animation, how things never quite moved as fluidly as real life. After watching this short from Guldies, I now realize that it’s because no one is a master of stop-motion claymation like he is. The animation is really simple—it’s…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 17

NSFW Animation Shows How Awful It Is to Be Stuck on Earth with Somebody After the Apocalypse

What’s worse than being alone on a post-apocalyptic Earth? Being stuck with someone you absolutely can’t stand. This short animation, After the End from Sam Southward, shows what happens when the last two men on Earth battle it out for a sex doll, all while doing a bunch of drugs, drinking a bunch of alcohol,…

Sploid Casey Chan Jul 13

We Can’t Legally Tell You to Be High While Watching This But

Ever wonder what the dreams of a professional animator must look like? Adult Swim’s Off the Air videos continue to be some close approximate of that breed of visual weirdness, and Shapes is the latest installment. Strap in for kaleidoscopic cats figures, trippy rotoscoping, claymation, glitch art, and intentionally terrible CGI. The video took the…

Sploid Avery Ellis May 26

Catch up on the Rosetta Mission with an Adorable Claymation Clip

Haven’t stayed on top of the Rosetta mission? Learn about the spacecraft, lander, and what we’ve learned from the comet so far in under 3 minutes of charming stop motion. The Royal Observatory is back with another claymation-style animation, this time running through why we launched the Rosetta spacecraft, what happened to the bouncy little…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Oct 10

The Rosetta Space Mission, Explained with Claymation

The Royal Observatory Greenwich has been posting some adorable space-themed animations, but this one detailing the European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission and the landing of Philae on comet 67P is particularly charming. Can we have clay versions of all our space robots? [via The Kid Should See This]

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 10

Watching a claymation head get deconstructed is oddly fascinating

It is somehow humanizing and terrifying to watch this claymation head get deconstructed in stop-motion. I think I shrieked and thought the face was coming alive multiple times and then shrieked again but no matter how gross it got, I could never look away. The sculpting and animation was done by Isak Åkerlund. SPLOID is…

Sploid Casey Chan May 7

Frozen Meets The Thing In This Adorably Vile Claymation Mash-Up

Animator Lee Hardcastle shares his latest creation, a lovingly gory, amazingly accurate claymation sequence that imagines what would happen if the Frozen gang enacted the blood-test scene from John Carpenter’s The Thing. The answer? Magic. Magic happens. Though it would prefer not to spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!

io9 Cheryl Eddy Feb 21

A Medical Student Ends Up Rooming With A Zombie—And Things Get Silly

Think twice before you cheekily post an for a roommate — wanted dead or alive. A squeamish medical student finds himself with a zombie paying half of his rent and things get adorably gross from there. Roommate Wanted – Dead or Alive was co-written and co-directed by Lærke Kromann and David Crisp as a graduation…

io9 Lauren Davis Feb 19

Constantine Tries To Save His Own TV Show In Bizarre Claymation Short

The future of the Constantine TV series looks pretty bleak, but supernatural detective/exorcist John Constantine isn’t waiting around to be canceled. He’s decided to hunt for his own missing showrunners in this silly, surreal claymated short titled “John Con Noir.” As weird as it is, this thing is technically official — that’s Matt Ryan doing…

io9 Rob Bricken Jan 19

What Makes Even The Devil Hate Hell? The Bureaucracy

The Devil just wants to buy a few souls and call it a day, but he’s constantly wrapped up in red tape. At least in this short film, he can slip away for a massage—but can he relax even there? The Nether Regions was written by Lesley Farrow and directed by Maria Lee at Wonky…

io9 Lauren Davis Aug 28

This creepy claymation ballet is like a Silly Symphony from Hell

The short film Eager begins as a slow dance of undead wraiths, but it eventually takes us to a claymation garden that seems pulled from a particularly nightmarish version of Alice in Wonderland, where the pansies have skull faces and the snap dragons are out to eat everyone else. NSFW for claymation breasts and phalluses.…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 13

Claymation aliens turn a petty dispute into an all-out animated war

For the latest entry in his Illustrated Aliens series, Andy Martin takes us to Planet Six, where his part-claymation, part-hand-drawn aliens find themselves engaged in a small argument that escalates quickly into a violent battle. The clay will fly. Earlier, we shared two earlier videos from Martin’s series: Planet Four and Planet Five. Each month,…

io9 Lauren Davis Jul 7

These Aliens Really Want to Put That Baby in the Microwave

Lee Hardcastle, better known as the maker of that delightfully violent penguin-themed claymation remake of The Thing, continues his reign as the early ’80s Sam Raimi of the claymation world with this short tale of a baby, a microwave and the alien invasion that desperately wants to bring the two together. I feel 100% confident…

io9 Rob Bricken Dec 11

Mary and Max: An 8-Year-Old Girl and an Obese, Asperger’s Adult are an Unlikely Pair of Pen Pals in this Claymation Film

Two characters, with seemingly nothing in common, become fervent pen pals in this silly, slightly dark, clever claymation film, written and directed by Adam Elliot. Mary (voice of Toni Collette) is an 8-year-old Australian little girl, with a mother constantly sloshed from too much sherry and a father who likes to do weird things to…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Oct 2

Paranorman trailer shows how to make both adults and kids laugh, without resorting to gimmicks

Is there anything worse than a “kiddie” movie that desperately tries to make adults laugh too, by throwing in dated pop-culture references and in-jokes? Thank goodness the claymation movie Paranorman looks like it’s relying on actual, you know, humor. Take a look at the more comedy-centric international trailer for Paranorman (about a boy who sees…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Mar 30

Must Watch: Aardman Animations’ Ultra-Cute Claymation Batman and Catwoman

Aardman Animations, the people behind Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run, are doing new claymation shorts starring DC Comics superheroes as part of Cartoon Network’s new DC Nation block of programming. (Which will also include Plastic Man cartoons and a short series about superheroines teaming up called Super Best Friends Forever.) And now, here’s your…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jan 26

What if The Thing starred the beloved claymation penguin Pingu?

Watch Lee Hardcastle‘s beautiful hybrid of the 1980s stop-motion TV show Pingu crossed with John Carpenter’s alien horror movie The Thing! We’ve never seen so much clay penguin blood! Hat tip to syafiqjabar of Mars.

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 4

Claymation

Aardman Animations Is Running Out of Its Iconic Clay

Claymation Artist Behind California Raisins and The Noid Dies at 70

These Belko Experiment Claymation Shorts Are Disgusting in the Best Possible Way

This Short Stop-Motion Clay Animation Is Fantastically Fluid

NSFW Animation Shows How Awful It Is to Be Stuck on Earth with Somebody After the Apocalypse

We Can’t Legally Tell You to Be High While Watching This But

Catch up on the Rosetta Mission with an Adorable Claymation Clip

The Rosetta Space Mission, Explained with Claymation

Watching a claymation head get deconstructed is oddly fascinating

Frozen Meets The Thing In This Adorably Vile Claymation Mash-Up

A Medical Student Ends Up Rooming With A Zombie—And Things Get Silly

Constantine Tries To Save His Own TV Show In Bizarre Claymation Short

What Makes Even The Devil Hate Hell? The Bureaucracy

This creepy claymation ballet is like a Silly Symphony from Hell

Claymation aliens turn a petty dispute into an all-out animated war

These Aliens Really Want to Put That Baby in the Microwave

Mary and Max: An 8-Year-Old Girl and an Obese, Asperger’s Adult are an Unlikely Pair of Pen Pals in this Claymation Film

Paranorman trailer shows how to make both adults and kids laugh, without resorting to gimmicks

Must Watch: Aardman Animations’ Ultra-Cute Claymation Batman and Catwoman

What if The Thing starred the beloved claymation penguin Pingu?

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