ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 3.11 - February 1999

A Roster of
Stop-Motion Companies

Companies A-D | Companies E-P | Companies Q-Z

Aardman Animations
Gas Ferry Road
Bristol BS1 6UN
England
44 (0)117 984 8485 (phone)
44 (0)117 984 8486 (fax)
http://www.aardman.com

Company Description: Since 1972, Aardman Animations has consistantly been producing some of the most recognizable, award winning stop-motion animation in the world. In addition to ground breaking music videos, such as Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer", Aardman has worked on a substantial body of commerical work for companies such as Chevron, Cadbury's and Kellogs. In addition to company founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton, Aardman is staffed by a talented slate of animators lead by Academy Award winning Nick Park, whose characters Wallace and Gromit have starred in three short films. Wallace and Gromit will also be starring in Aardman's latest feature 'Chicken Run', co-directed / co-written by Nick Park and Peter Lord, slated for release in the Summer of 2000.


AMPnyc
250 Fifth Avenue, Suite 400
New York, NY 10001
(212) 213-3821 (phone)
(212) 213-3869 (fax)
AMPnyc@aol.com
http://www.AMPnyc.com
Contact: Patricia Claire, ART.FX
(212) 255-2252


AMPnyc West
145 S. Bedford Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
(310) 550-5826 (phone)
(310) 550-5827 (fax)
AMPnyc@aol.com
http://www.AMPnyc.com
Contact: Patricia Claire, ART.FX
(212) 255-2252

Company Description: AMPnyc prides itself in producing comedy-driven character animation for both original productions and commercial work. AMPnyc specializes in traditional 2D character animation and Stop-motion animation. Some of AMPnyc's recent clients include: MTV/Viacom, Wieden & Kennedy, ABC Television, Sunbow Entertainment, and Primestar Satellite Television.


Animation NYC
44 W 24 ST
New York, NY 10010
USA
(212) 229-9449 (phone)
(212) 229-0237 (fax)
AnimateNYC@aol
http://www.animationnyc.com
Contact: Carlo Spicola

Company Description: Animation NYC is a script-to-screen creative services company. Originally created to produce cost-effective stop-motion and clay animation using digital capture technology, the company has provided stop-motion animation and consulting for Sesame Street, Calvin Klein and MTV Animation. Animation NYC combines illustration, computer graphics, and stop-motion clay animation to provide content for television, CD-ROM and the Web. Animation NYC has also developed original programming using stop-motion, including "Delbert & Geeko," about a boy and his lizard, "Sylphid," a woodland fairy who champions for the environment, and "Grandpa & Santa," about an old skeptic who stumbles upon St. Nick. The company employs a dozen multimedia artists including 3D modelers, graphic designers and professional illustrators from across the country.


Artemia Films
1198 Providencia
Santiago Chile
56 2 209 7429 (phone)
56 2 343 06067 (fax)
Contact: Vivienne Barry
vivienne@entelchile.net .

Company Description: Artemia is one of Chile's only stop-motion studios. Currently, they are shooting a 7 minute short film "Devorame otra vez", or "Eat me once again" the first part of a four part series titled "La Salsa." They also produce stop-motion commercials.


bolexbrothers
3 Brunel Lock
Development
Smeaton Road
Cumberland Basin
Bristol BS1 6SE
England
44 (0)117 985 8000 (phone)
44 (0)117 985 8899


Bowes Productions Inc.
4776 Buxton St.
Burnaby, Vancouver B.C. V5H 1J3
Canada
(604) 871-0338 (phone)
(604) 433-0340 (fax)

Company Description: Bowes Productions Inc. located on Canada's West Coast, celebrates its 10th year anniversary in Vancouver British Columbia. Created to specialize in Clay Animation, the studio has expanded to cover a wide variety of stop-motion techniques, using mediums such as clay, rubber foam latex, silicones, foam core, sand, nuts, bolts, and an endless amount of found objects. Bowes Productions is one of the fastest growing and innovated stop-motion animation studios in Western Canada, producing commercials, television productions, children's programming, station IDs, short films, music videos and various other specialized projects. Clients include: Mc Donalds, Milton Bradley, General Mills, Mattel, CBC Canada, YTV Canada, and Fuji Television Corporation Japan.


Chiodo Brothers Prods., Inc.
110 W. Providencia Ave.
Burbank, CA 91502
(818) 842-5656 (phone)
http://www.ninjaturtles.com/Chiodo.htm

Company Description: Chiodo Brothers Prod., Inc. is one of the foremost independent production companies with special effects expertise in stop-motion animation, live action puppetry, make-up effects, miniatures, mechanical props and computer animation. The three brothers are the wizards behind The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles "Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation" television show. They fabricated the new turtles and all the villains using computer controlled animatronics. They have worked on a variety of high profile projects, including the Power Rangers feature film and the ground-breaking nine screen, 360 degree film "Dinosaur Adventure", a centerpiece of Iwerks Entertainment's Cinetropolis theme park.


Curious Pictures New York
440 Lafayette Street 6th Floor
New York, NY 10003
(212) 674-1400 (phone)
(212) 674-0081 (fax)


Curious Pictures San Francisco
1360 Mission Street Suite 201
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 437.1400 (phone)
(415) 437.1408 (fax)
http://www.curiouspix.com
akornilakis@curiouspictures.com

Company Description: Curious Pictures is an international design and television production company producing comedy, graphically inspired live-action, special effects, graphics and animation of all types. The Curious staff of directors, designers, artists and animators produces TV commercials, on-air graphics/titles and television programming. The 20,000 square foot facility in lower Manhattan contains a cel and a computer animation department, a shooting stage with two motion control camera systems, a prop and model shop and digital editing rooms.


Danger Productions
305 San Anselmo Ave.
Suite 203
San Anselmo, CA 94960
(415) 256-8850 (phone)

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