A new piece of software just released from animation startup Midas Touch Interactive called Midas Creature is designed to add secondary animation to 2d characters – automatically. Midas Touch ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Aardman Animations Stop-motion is a captivating animation technique that brings inanimate ...

Even to an animator who once created a film out of his own blood, The Physics of Sorrow proved challenging. Theodore Ushev has made a habit of adopting a new technique for each of his shorts, matching ...

What could be cooler than bringing your LEGO men to life? Molding out of clay a two-headed beast who tears down a building, perhaps? Or commanding a banana to peel itself? With stop-motion animation, ...

Animation has been captivating audiences for more than a hundred years. From classic forms like hand drawn and stop-motion, to cutting-edge techniques like motion graphics and CGI, animation has a ...

You’re probably familiar with the old joke about a physicist who, when asked to use science to help a dairy farmer, begins by approximating a spherical cow in a vacuum. But maybe it’s time to ...

The first thing from AAPT that I would like to mention is SAM Animation that Brian Gravel demonstrated. SAM is free software that allows for the easy creation of stop motion animations. Basically, you ...

Physics, particularly forces and motion, can be challenging. By observing everyday motion, conducting simple experiments, and understanding Newton's laws in plain language, the concepts become more ...