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. http://www.animateclay.com/

Clay Animation & Sculpture Stop motion animation movies and pictures created with clay. [Some pages from this site not viewable with some browsers] http://members.tripod.com/~dragomir.n

Stop Motion Pro For Windows PCs, a mid-priced frame capturing program for professional level stop motion animation, clay animation, pixillation, and cut out animation techniques. http://www.stopmotionpro.com/

The Puppetry Home Page Lists information and resources; covering traditional puppetry, animatronics, and stop motion puppet animation. http://www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/definitions/index.html

StopMotionAnimation.Com Information, resources, library, and how-to instructionals. http://www.StopMotionAnimation.com/

Loose Moose Animation Award winning stop motion animation company using puppets, clay animation and CGI. Best known for their Brisk Iced Tea television commercials. http://www.loosemoose.net/

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. http://www.framethief.com

The Art of Stop Motion Animation Overview about stop motion animation and general how-to aspects. Covers films and television shows using stop motion. Also, behind the scene photos of professional animator's work. http://pharosproductions.com/aosma/smhome.html

The Clay Animation Home Page Site that includes, resources, discussion group, materials & supplies links, and other information for those wanting to learn about stop motion clay animation. http://clay.s5.com

The Clay Animation Station For beginners/students, general information about getting started in clay animation. Includes tips, tricks, and resources. http://library.thinkquest.org/22316/home.html

Ray Harryhausen The life and career of the special effects, stop-motion animator. http://lavender.fortunecity.com/judidench/584/

Stop Motion E-mail Forum Community for discussing the craft with other hobbyists and professionals. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Stopmotion

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. http://www.jwmm.co.uk/frame.htm

Stop-Motion Filmography A website reviewing this detailed book about stop motion animation in motion pictures or television, specifically, where the stop motion puppets were used to interact with live action/people. http://www.aboyd.com/kong/pettigrew.html

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. http://www.burmanfoam.com

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. http://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.11/2.11pages/2.11briertonani.html

BTV - Mac Animation Video software with frame capture features specifically for animation applications, such as stop motion, clay, and drawn. Also features timelapse and motion detection. http://www.bensoftware.com/

Building Ball-Socket Armatures Description and photos showing the construction of stop motion animation puppet armature joints using common tools and basic metalworking methods. http://www.montereymotiongraphics.com/armatures/

MovieStuff Transfers For those shooting stop motion using Super 8 film format, this company offers low cost film-to-digital transfers of your Super 8 animation. Film is transferred to miniDV tape format and ready for downloading to your computer. http://moviestuff.tv/

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. http://www.animationtoolworks.com