What's the type of animation called that they use in Fantastic Mr Fox?

Claymation?

Stop motion.

It’s called stop-motion, or sometimes stop-frame.

Yup, stop-motion. Thanks peoples

I liked claymation better.

@rebbel Claymation is a viable term, but only when the characters or subject is actually made of clay (gumby for example) but Fantastic Mr. Fox uses models.

boggis, bunce, and bean

@cockswain why the cuss did you mention those three?!

one short, one fat, one lean

I weigh less than a slice of bread.

Stop-frame or single-frame animation goes at least as far back as King Kong in 1933. The animator was Willis O’Brien, who used puppets supported inside by metal armatures that could be rigidly positioned and posed. He inspired Ray Harryhausen, legendary stop-frame animator of the 1950s & 60s.

Clay animation is a different technique with a different “look and feel.” Both require highly talented artists to pull off the illusion of natural motion so well. As a youngster I dabbled with Super-8 single-frame animation—makes you appreciate the work involved.

Here’s a video of the making of Fantastic Mr. Fox. It’s basically the same process. (The fur & clothing were especially well done.) They shot over 600,000 individual frames.

You wrote a bad song, Petey.

@sliceswiththings that killed me. Also, “how did you get in the sidecar? Where did you come from? You make me feel like I’m losing my mind.”

Stop Motion

Got it. Stop Motion.