stop motion

L.A. has also offered puppeteers and puppet builders a wide range of opportunities working in film and television, including claymation, stop motion animation and good old-fashioned hand puppetry.

And I knew even as a child how they did it because I was already doing clay monsters and stop motion.

The stop motion animation had been filmed in Mr Firmin's barn in Blean, just outside Canterbury, Kent.

That appreciation for the craft of stop motion, inevitably susceptible to human excellence and error, propelled Gustafson throughout his career.

“I don’t think stop motion will ever be as big as cel or computers,” he said.