The Best Clay Animation Movie Ranked: More than just a Work of Art

Can we just appreciate how much work there is involved in the behind the scenes of making these clay come alive? It is absolutely no small feat and shows so much creativity and dedication. I’m sure we all remember those days in pre-school when we would make hideous figures out of air-dry clay and realize that we are no sculptor. Without further ado, Here are a list of astonishingly creative claymations ranked according to IMDB.

1

The Wrong Trousers

Peter Sallis, Peter Hawkins
Nick Park
1993

Gromit finds himself being pushed out of his room and home by a new lodger who is actually a ruthless criminal (and a small penguin). The penguin is planning a robbery and needs to use Wallace and his mechanical remote controlled trousers to pull off the raid. However, Gromit is wise to the penguin and comes to the rescue.

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8.3 IMDB
2

Mary and Max

Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana
Adam Elliot
2009

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the mid-1970s, a homely, friendless Australian girl of 8 picks a name out of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate bar. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence. Will the two ever meet face to face?

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8.1 IMDB
3

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman, Catherine O\'Hara
Henry Selick
1993

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.

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8 IMDB
4

Isle of Dogs

Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton
Wes Anderson
2018

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that's a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.

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7.9 IMDB
5

Fantastic Mr. Fox

George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman
Wes Anderson
2009

The Fantastic Mr. Fox bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.

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7.8 IMDB
6

Kubo and the Two Strings

Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Rooney Mara
Travis Knight
2016

Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.

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7.8 IMDB
7

Coraline

Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders
Henry Selick
2009

When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, with caring parents and all her dreams coming true. When the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay in her world forever, the girl refuses and finds that the alternate reality where she is trapped is only a trick to lure her.

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7.7 IMDB
8

The Little Prince

Jeff Bridges, Mackenzie Foy, Rachel McAdams
Mark Osborne
2015

Based on the best-seller book 'The Little Prince', the movie tells the story of a little girl that lives with resignation in a world where efficiency and work are the only dogmas. Everything will change when accidentally she discovers her neighbor that will tell her about the story of the Little Prince that he once met.

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7.7 IMDB
9

A Matter of Loaf and Death

Peter Sallis, Sally Lindsay, Melissa Collier
Nick Park
2008

Wallace and Gromit have a brand new business - a bakery. Although business is booming, Gromit is concerned by the news that 12 local bakers have 'disappeared' this year - but Wallace isn't worried. He's too distracted and in love with local beauty and bread enthusiast, Piella Bakewell, to be of much help. Gromit must be the sleuth and solve the escalating murder mystery.

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7.6 IMDB
10

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes
Nick Park, Steve Box
2005

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.

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7.4 IMDB
11

Corpse Bride

Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson
Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
2005

Set in a 19th-century european village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living.

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7.3 IMDB
12

Shaun the Sheep Movie

Justin Fletcher, Omid Djalili, Richard Webber
Mark Burton, Richard Starzak
2015

When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.

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7.3 IMDB
13

ParaNorman

Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tucker Albrizzi, Jodelle Ferland
Sam Fell, Chris Butler
2012

In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock can speak to the dead, but no one other than his eccentric new friend believes his ability is real. One day, Norman's eccentric uncle tells him of a ritual he must perform to protect the town from a curse cast by a witch centuries ago.

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7 IMDB
14

Frankenweenie

Charlie Tahan, Catherine O\'Hara, Martin Short
Tim Burton
2012

When a car hits young Victor's pet dog Sparky, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them that Sparky's still the good, loyal friend he was.

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6.9 IMDB
15

The Boxtrolls

Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Elle Fanning
Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable
2014

An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.

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6.8 IMDB
16

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton
Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt
2012

The luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain is a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side, and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz to the much coveted Pirate of the Year Award. It’s a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they battle a diabolical queen and team up with a haplessly smitten young scientist, but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!

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6.7 IMDB