stop motion

The breakup of a plate doesn't just stop motion -- it reshapes the planet.

From “Gumby” to “Rudolph” to “Wallace and Gromit” to “The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” stop motion is of all forms of animation most magical and in its real-space, three dimensional, handcrafted way the most like life, if not necessarily the most lifelike.

L.A. has also offered puppeteers and puppet builders a wide range of opportunities working in film and television, including claymation, stop motion animation and good old-fashioned hand puppetry.

And I knew even as a child how they did it because I was already doing clay monsters and stop motion.

The stop motion animation had been filmed in Mr Firmin's barn in Blean, just outside Canterbury, Kent.