About

Stop Motion Database is a source-cited, community-maintained record of stop-motion films, studios and the people who make them. It is built to be a fair, industry-aligned reference - an external archive of the craft rather than a news blog. Entries are curated and cited, not openly editable, so the record stays accurate and consistently formatted.

An open, incomplete record

The catalogue currently holds 2517 works, 2419 people and 3948 sourced credits. It is incomplete by design and tracks its own gaps in public: the research queue lists works that still need a verified studio or crew credits, and the coverage audit, progress scorecard and credit network show how complete the record is. High priority means recent works, especially post-2020 titles without credits.

How entries are sourced

Every field is backed by a citation - official sites, press kits, end-credit rolls, or reliable databases - and full credits mean complete end-roll coverage, not a single director credit. See the methodology for the full sourcing and verification standards.

The stop-motion wiki

The wiki is a growing glossary for the things used in stop motion: capture techniques, animated subjects, background construction and physical materials. Broad concepts stay together until their source coverage is large enough to split.

Contribute

Rights holders, studios, creators and researchers can add, claim or correct an entry through reviewed forms on the submit page. Each request becomes a reviewed Issue before publication.

Supporting the makers

Film pages link to where you can buy or stream a work. Buying physical media (Blu-ray / DVD) returns more to the creators than streaming, so those links come first. They are currently plain search links with no affiliate tracking; if affiliate links are ever used it will be disclosed. See the disclosure page.