Norman McLaren is know to be the most awarded filmmakers know in Canada. One of the first known of Norman that because he didn't have access to a camera he actually attempted scratching and painting the film stock itself. Norman made several propaganda films for the NFB (National Film Board) in 
canada but the later founded the whole animation department.


Norman was first famous for his film "Neighbours".



This film was made in a style called pixilation. He did this by filming  moving people or objects by a few frames at a time. This then gave the actions in the frame a sort of frantic look.

Art Clokey

thur "Art" Clokey (October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.





Ray Harryhausen

Raymond Frederick "Ray" Harryhausen is an American visual effects creator, writer and producer. He created a brand of stop-motion model animation known as "Dynamation."