Stop-Motion Animation Is Dying, But It Still Matte

August 10, 2015, 08:46 AM

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Roughly a decade ago, the world of animation was nearly dealt a serious blow in the form of a fire destroying over three decades of archival work from Aardman Animations. This stop-motion studio is best known for creating the unflappable duo of Wallace and Gromit, but films like Chicken Run and TV specials-turned-series like Creature Comforts, despite being fairly slight affairs, have established them as being among the premier animation creators in the international market. To lose their work w...