ANIMATED FILM INFORMATION:

A Bugs Life This web site has a picture of Flik, a character from Disney and Pixar's feature animation film, A Bugs Life. A movie is 24 frames per second so a 90 minute movie is 129,600 frames. In our case, each frame was 2048 X 872 pixels by 4 bytes of color information. This means each frame is 7,143,424 bytes of data. Multiplying 129,600 X 7.1MB/frame is roughly 925GB of storage for the film frames. However, there are many first attempts at frames and also video resolution frames that have to be stored as well. On A Bug's Life, we had about 2TB of storage, even though the actual final frames only took up .925TB.

	Stay Tooned This site is a compilation of animated film reviews, artist profiles, interviews, essays, animated film clips and highlights a movie of the week. A great place to get up-to-date information on new releases as well as become informed of up coming animation festivals.

A Nightmare Before Christmas This web site takes you behind the scenes in the making of Tim Burton's film, Nightmare Before Christmas. There are few animators that can stake claim in being one of the pioneers in stop-motion animation, but Tim Burton is one of them. With a history in live-action fare, Burton has never lost his animation roots.

James and the Giant Peach This web site has information about the movie James and the Giant Peach. With the The Nightmare Before Christmas' success, Disney decided to create their own stop-motion feature based on Roald Dahls, "James and the Giant Peach." Under the direction of Henry Selick and the producing expertise of Burton, "James and the Giant Peach" became another flawless production expressing Burton's ingenious style.

Stop Motion Shorts This web page offers clips from numerous stop motion films and shorts.

How to Stop Motion This web site explains how the art of Stop Motion Animation is achieved through the use of foam puppet fabrication. Stop-motion puppet animation is surely one of the most unusual art forms in the world. Stop-motion is unique in the animation field in that it encompasses a number of disciplines to achieve a final end. This article includes a brief description of the stop-motion process. The description of this art form will deal with the necessary disciplines for creating a stop-motion puppet. The disciplines include: design of the puppet, armature machining, sculpting, moldmaking and casting, fabrication and detailing.