Claymation Creations
This cheese-loving inventor and his loyal dog often get into silly adventures with crazy inventions.
Who are Wallace and Gromit?
This Tim Burton movie features Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
He’s the skinny skeleton who sings “This is Halloween” and wears a pinstripe suit.
Who is Jack Skellington?
In claymation, characters are made from this squishy, moldable material.
What is clay?
Stop-motion movies are made using small versions of real-life places called what?
What are miniature sets?
In this movie, a group of chickens tries to escape a farm using an airplane made of scraps.
What is Chicken Run?
In this movie, a girl with blue hair discovers a creepy “Other Mother” behind a secret door.
What is Coraline?
She has button eyes, blue hair, and finds a strange world through a tiny door in her house.
Who is Coraline?
This many pictures, or “frames,” are usually shown every second to make smooth stop motion.
What is 24?
Tiny props like chairs, books, or beds are made by hand and must be the perfect what?
What is scale?
This British sheep doesn’t speak but always finds himself in funny situations on the farm.
Who is Shaun the Sheep?
This black-and-white film is about a boy who brings his dog Sparky back to life.
What is Frankenweenie?
He’s a sheep who never talks, but always causes mischief on a British farm
Who is Shaun the Sheep?
Before computers, animators used these hand-held tools to check how movement looked.
What are flipbooks?
In movies like Coraline, every puppet outfit is handmade with this tiny tool.
What is a sewing needle?
This claymation movie features Wallace turning into a rabbit monster during the full moon.
What is Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?
This spooky movie follows a boy who can talk to ghosts and must save his town from zombies.
What is ParaNorman?
He’s a young boy who can see ghosts and tries to stop a witch’s curse in his town.
Who is Norman from ParaNorman?
This person carefully moves the puppets and takes the photos one frame at a time.
Who is an animator?
This behind-the-scenes job makes sure every tiny item, puppet, and camera shot stays exactly the same across days or weeks of filming.
What is a continuity supervisor?
This 2020 sequel brought back the chickens from the first film with a new mission.
What is Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget?
In this romantic but eerie stop-motion film, a man accidentally proposes to a skeleton bride.
What is Corpse Bride?
He’s a bald inventor with a love for cheese, often seen with his loyal dog sidekick.
Who is Wallace?
The process of planning every single frame before animation starts, often drawn as a comic strip, is called what?
What is a storyboard?
This famous studio behind Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run is known for its amazing miniatures and clay characters.
What is Aardman Animations?