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Stop Motion is a technique of animation involving physical models as opposed to drawings or CGI. The models have to be moved for every frame. This sort of thing can take a ''very'' long time to film.
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** Also their TV series ''[[Shaun the Sheep]]'' and its [[Spin-Off]], ''[[Timmy Time]]''.
* ''[[Pingu]]''
* ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch (Animation)|Celebrity Deathmatch]]''
* ''[[Gumby]]''
** Creator Art Clokey did clay titles for some mid-60s American International movies.
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* The 'Just a tiny amount' sketch on ''[[The Fast Show]]'' showed a very dull claymation director demonstrating how his films are made -- moving bits of a model 'Just a tiny amount' for every frame of film, over and over and over. Inevitably the man he's talking to turns out to be Mr 'Does anyone fancy a pint?'.
* ''[[The Wrong Coast]]'', an entertainment [[News Parody]].
* The children's television show ''[[Bump in Thethe Night]]''. The animation was excellent. Unfortunately for the show, which was cancelled after one season, the writing was less so.
* The California Raisin Board, a part state-agency/part agricultural co-operative association of fruit growers, created a set of clay stop-motion characters in their TV ads as a music group, to advertise the fruit its members wanted to sell. This was apparently so successful they created actual toys of the characters and a short-lived TV series. Bonus points if you can guess what state it was from. Hint: {{spoiler|basically the first three words of this example were what they were called}}.
* A number of [[Ufotable]] anime feature claymation segments:
** The ending sequence of ''[[Coyote Ragtime Show]]''.
** The ED for ''[[Futakoi Alternative]]''.
** The ED for ''[[Manabi Straight!]]''.
** The audience warnings (no smoking, no mobile phones etc.) for ''[[Kara noKarano Kyoukai]]''.
* Anything by [[Voltaire (Musicband)|Voltaire]].
* ''[[Klay World]]''.
* ''[[Moral Orel]]'', a show parodying ''[[Davey and Goliath]]''.
* Russian shorts by Harry Bardin. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwSPrG4gRUI ''Brake!''.]
* [[Plasticine Crow]]
* As a [[Something Completely Different]] stunt, [[Conan O 'Brien]] once had entire episode of his ''Late Night'' show produced in Claymation.
* ''[[The Adventures of Mark Twain]]''
* The opening titles and closing credits for ''[[Brain Donors]]'' are done with Claymation by Will Vinton (of California Raisins fame).
* ''[[Community]]'''s [[Community (TV)/Recap/S2 E11 Abeds Uncontrollable Christmas|second season]] [[Christmas Episode]] [[Art Shift|was in stop motion]].
* Several scenes in [[Takashi Miike]]'s surreal comedy ''[[The Happiness of the Katakuris]]'' are done this way.
* Some of the characters from ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]''.
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* The [[Animated Music Video]] for ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQRS40OKNE White Winter Hymnal]'' by [[Fleet Foxes]].
* Also the music video for [[Cage the Elephant]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZBmcSBoRAE&ob=av2e "Aberdeen"].
* All work by Bruce Bickford, an [[Deranged Animation|unusual animator]] with a [[Cult Classic|Cult Following]] whose work can be seen in [[Frank Zappa (Music)|Frank Zappa]]'s ''Baby Snakes'' and other home video releases, including one specifically devoted to Bickford's animation, ''The Amazing Mr. Bickford''. There's also a documentary about Bickford, ''Monster Road''.
 
 
== Puppet stop motion (non-clay figures) ==
* George Pal's Puppetoons.
* The first word in this trope is Willis O'Brian and his masterpiece [[King Kong]]. Willis' filmns, besides early Clay Mation shorts, include: ''The Ghost of Slumber Mountain'', ''[[The Lost World (Literaturenovel)|The Lost World]]'' (1925), ''Son of Kong'', ''[[Mighty Joe Young]]'', ''The Animal World'', ''[[The Black Scorpion]]'' and ''[[The Giant Behemoth]]''.
** The original ''[[King Kong]]''. Unfortunately, the fur on Kong wasn't brushed back between shots, so it constantly ripples. The animator, Willis O'Brian knew this and was very displeased. The Director, however, loved how it looked and so did the critics, commenting that "you can see the ape's hairs stand on end!"
* The second word in this trope is [[Ray Harryhausen]]. He's important enough to bear repetition.
* The Third word is Phil Tippet, who now has a [http://www.youtube.com/user/PhilsAttic youtube channel]. He's worked on a few small movies like ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[Robo CopRoboCop]]'' and ''[[Terminator]]''. He made the switch over to CG effects and keeps in the business.
** [http://www.cartoonbrew.com/stop-motion/phil-tippetts-mad-god.html He seems to be going back to stop motion, however.]
* A lot of work written or produced by [[Tim Burton]], including:
** His first short ''Vincent''.
** ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' (writer/producer).
** ''[[Corpse Bride (Animation)|Corpse Bride]]'' (director).
** Large sections of the movie of ''[[James and Thethe Giant Peach]]'' (producer).
** Parts of ''[[Beetlejuice (Film)|Beetlejuice]]'', like the sandworms, the snake-banister, and facial transformations, which gave the movie a charming George Pal quality.
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', created by Seth Green of ''Buffy'' and ''[[Austin Powers]]'' fame, was made using modified action figures.
* The film ''[[Chicken Run (Animation)|Chicken Run]]'' -- only the heads were clay, the rest of each figure was a bendable wire framework covered in silicone. Each character wears a scarf or ribbon around their neck to hide the seam between the head and the body.
* ''[[Davey and Goliath]]''
* [[Rankin/Bass Productions]] holiday specials were usually puppet stop motion (a process R/B called "Animagic"). ''[[Rudolph the Red -Nosed Reindeer]]'', ''[[Here Comes Peter Cottontail]]'', ''[[Santa Claus Isis Comin' to Town]]'', and ''[[The Year Without a Santa Claus]]'' are the most widely known.
* The French film ''Max&Co'' combines puppet stop motion and CGI.
* [[Ka Blam! (Animation)|Ka Blam!]], which has a variety-show approach to the cartoons it presents, had a number of recurring stop-motion sketches.
** ''[[Action League NowNOW]]'' is perhaps the most notable example; it used obscure (usually Dollar Store brand) and custom action figures and referred to the process as being "Filmed in Chuckamation"--any character that flies is just tossed in front of the camera. It also got a [[Spin-Off]] when Kablam ended.
* ''[[Return to Oz]]'' blends live actors and puppet stop motion.
* Used in the ''[[Lonely Girl 15Lonelygirl15]]'' episodes "My Sister = Slut", and "My Mom's A Freak!".
* Wes Anderson's [[Film of the Book]] of ''[[Fantastic Mr. Fox]]''.
** Also used for the sea creatures in ''[[The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou]]''.
* The film of ''[[Coraline (Animationanimation)|Coraline]]'', in which nearly everything (including the grass and Coraline's raincoat) was wired to move around with the exception of the faces, which, instead of being made with clay, were designed on a computer, made with a three dimensional printer and were replaced every frame, like Henry Selick's previous work on the Pillsbury Doughboy commercials.
* [[Pinchcliffe Grand Prix]] is the most visited film ever in Norwegian movie theatres.
* [[Chorlton and The Wheelies]]
* ''[[Mary Shelley's Frankenhole (Animation)|Mary Shelley's Frankenhole]]'' is made with paper dolls. They're still molded to be three dimensional figures, so they're not cutouts.
* ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine (Animation)|Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' was actually animated this way until Season 11. Season 12 was actually animated using CGI faces superimposed on top of stop-motion models, and Season 13 onwards [[All CGI Cartoon|is animated entirely in CGI.]]
* ''[[Bob the Builder]]''.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=718DpmQrPbg This] classic Christmas ad for Norelco shavers.
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* [[Emile Cohl]], one of the very first auteur animators, tended to use cutout animation in conjunction with everything else he could get his hands on.
* ''Worker And Parasite'', the cartoon-within-a-cartoon of ''[[The Simpsons|Krusty Gets Kancelled]]'' (and quite an accurate spoof of Eastern European cartoons), was done this way.
* [[Terry Gilliam (Creator)|Terry Gilliam]]'s animations for ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' and ''[[Monty Python]]'', mostly using found images in surreal combinations.
* Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's (see above) series ''The Saga of Noggin the Nog'' and ''Ivor the Engine'' were executed entirely with cutout animation, as were some of the stories-within-the-show in ''Bagpuss''.
* Some of the characters from ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]''.
* The [[Animated Music Video|Animated Music Videos]] for ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT-dxG4WWf4 Mykonos]'' and ''[http://fleetfoxes.com/videos/music_videos The Shrine / An Argument]'' by [[Fleet Foxes]] (see above). The lead singer's brother is an animator.
* [[Jaga Jazzist (Music)|Jaga Jazzist]]'s music videos for "Animal Chin" and "Day" (both made by Acoustic Kung Fu Films) both involved animation of cutouts from photographs and magazine pages.
* Disney's ''It's Tough To Be A Bird'' (1969) and ''Dad, Can I Borrow The Car?'' (1970) both include cutout animation segments.
* [[Mike Jittlov]]'s short ''Fashionation'' starts with a sequence of animated images cut from catalogs and magazines. In fact, much of Jittlov's work involves cutout animation; in order to make up for missing footage (and a budget shortfall) on the feature-length version of his ''magnum opus'', ''[[The Wizard of Speed and Time (Film)|The Wizard of Speed and Time]]'', he actually used cutouts to fake a shot of a tourist bus passing in front of Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
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* [[Built With Lego|LEGO]] is popular as a medium for stop motion for amateurs or professionals. [[LEGO]] even promoted this with their LEGO Studios line of toys back in 2000, which included sets like exploding buildings or giant dinosaur heads with moving jaws. One set had a camera that you can use to make the movies, and it can even attach to your LEGO bricks in the case you need to prop it up somewhere. The LEGO Studios website even had a few tutorials on how to do various specials effects like making minifigs run. Eventually the lineup ended with a [[Spider-Man]] theme in 2002.
** Others go on to make custom LEGO characters and pieces to make stop motion videos of other properties that LEGO isn't involved with. Such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua5qh40x4KA&feature=relmfu this video] for ''[[Gears of War]]'' called ''Bricks of War.''
* ''[[Phantom Investigators]]'', which was half stop-motion puppets and half live action, made by the same company of ''[[Ka Blam!|Life with Loopy]]''
* The film ''[[Better Off Dead]]'' includes a brief stop-motion sequence where the protagonist Lane, while toiling at a fast-food restaurant, imagines himself as [[Doctor Frankenstein]] bringing burgers to life.
* The web series ''[[Arby 'n' the Chief]]'' uses ''[[Halo]]'' figurines to represent the titular characters and some secondary characters. Most of the other characters are represented by off-screen voice-overs.
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* [[''King Kong Vs/Godzilla'']] features a brief piece of it when Godzilla drop-kicks King Kong.
* [[Mute Math]] has used stop motion for a couple of their music videos [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv2mjAgFTaI&feature=artist Blood Presure] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry6GAwDCI2I Spotlight].
* The ''[[Paddington (Animation)|Paddington]]'' TV series from the 1970s-80s used [[Medium Blending]] with a stop-motion bear for the main character and animated paper cutouts for everyone else.
* As the [[Transformers]] toys became more poseable and screen accurate it has become more common for fans to create their own stop motion Transformers ''series'' or recreate a battle scene, especially from [[Transformers Film Series|the movies]] for their memorable action sequences.
* The work of [[Mike Jittlov]], most notably ''Mouse Mania'' (made for Disney's 1978 ''Mickey's 50th'' special), ''Fashionation'', and ''[[The Wizard of Speed and Time (Film)|The Wizard of Speed and Time]]'' (also made for Disney).
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