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Need help finding Stop Motion Animation Shorts for kids

  • I am teaching an animation course for children and I am looking for stop motion animation shorts to show as examples in class. I am trying (without luck!) to find good shorts that are made using things like paper and paint rather than 3D claymation and puppetry. For this introductory class I want to show the kids some fun, inspiring, beautiful work but I'm having so much trouble sifting through google to find what I'm looking for. Does anyone have: 1. a good searchable animation site to recommend 2. favorite shorts or 3. ideas search terms so that I can hunt down some good examples? I keep finding stuff that is too dark in subject matter or uses mostly claymation (3D and puppetry). I am looking for animations that use paper cut silhouettes, paints, some objects are fine like string etc but nothing that is modeled in clay or painstakingly constructed puppets.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa6hiSMSiX4?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovvk7T8QUIU is cool - household objects with some simple clay, showing various GAME OVER scenarios from classic video games. Also, http://creaturecast.org/ is a series of videos, mostly stop motion animations done with pen, paper, and ink, done by biology students at Brown University. http://creaturecast.org/archives/2407-creaturecast-tardigrades is a really adorable one about tardigrades with very simple stop animation.

mrmanvir

The https://www.nfb.ca/ is a resource regularly used in Montreal schools and includes many documentaries and animations. Many videos are free and a few require payment. Also, as a bonus, most of the animations have no spoken language and rely on the images to tell a story (to make them french-english-bilingual). This https://www.nfb.ca/film/merle comes to mind, and is free to access.

eisforcool

Note that the National Film Board of Canada also has a great app for creating stop-motion videos (https://www.nfb.ca/stopmo; unfortunately not free). Don't know what age you are dealing with, but my 1st-grader can handle the basics of the app quite easily. The NFB has also provided a https://www.nfb.ca/playlist/stopmostudio/, that might be helpful for you.

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coevals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crashboxwas created as an educational program for kids. Lots of great animation bits.

effluvia

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Indie rock band OK Go's "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddYUw7a4erk is a fun stop-motion music video done for Sesame Street. Although it is shot using people, it is still essentially basic blocks of color moving around (and there is some paper animation involved). It can be great for inspiration, especially if you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFsIcwsbfWU

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mikepop

It may be more fun to actually do it with a smartphone app or two. Most lego shorts are stop motion and can be easily found on Youtube.

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