Michael is a huge fan of JRPGs and fighting games that includes the Persona, Final Fantasy, and Guilty Gear franchises. He has worked as a journalist for a decade and has written for a number of ...

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IN THE WANING YEARS of the '80s, one of the biggest (and most surprising) pop culture phenomena was stop-motion clay animation, or "claymation." Dinosaurs, singing California raisins, and a weirdly ...

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Ginger and Rocky of “Chicken Run” fame and the eponymous Shaun the Sheep and Wallace and Gromit represent the pinnacle of claymation achievement. All created from scratch by British animation studio ...

Sometimes claymation is used to create engaging and detailed characters who seem, in some ways, more alive than living creatures. And sometimes it's used to move blobs of clay around. Trapper is an ...

Here are the best stop-motion animated Christmas movies of all time.