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A list of Chinese stop motion animation (Part II).
Part I: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/20640

Standalone Avant Garde anime films with a duration of 45 minutes or more.

Counting summaries (Re:Cycle of the Penguindrum, Maroko), alternative versions (Shoujo Kakumei Utena Adolescence Mokushiroku, Alexander Senki), multi episode compilations (Genius Party) and long OVAs (Tenshi no Tamago).

Sometimes we crave for darker themes, shows delivering more philosophical idea or heartbreaking scenes (or both). Dystopian worlds create an excellent chance to have excellent tragedies; love, friendships, adventures while the world is falling and crumbling apart around us.

For this list I've compiled shows that I've watched to deliver on this, some more somber and some more light-hearted. Sci-fi, alternate history or slightly psychedelic, this list has it all.

These stacks are meant for cataloguing every stop-motion animation on Myanimelist. The list is the result of research by the Stop-Motion Animation Appreciation Society:

https://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=16200

Stop-motion is a form of animation in which objects are manipulated little by little while each frame is shot separately. Puppet animation is the most common, but before 1935 cutout animation was also very common. Among other types are claymation, pixilation (now removed from the database), object and model animation. In this list also works using sand, charcoal or paint are included, since in the form they've been accepted to MAL, they also include gradual manipulation and shot by shot filming.

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47018
Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47020
Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47021
Part 4: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47022
Part 5: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47023
Part 6: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47026
Part 7: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47027

Part 9: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47034
Part 10: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47035
Part 11: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47036
Part 12: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47038
Part 13: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/49186
Part 14: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/51880

The Stop-Motion Animation Appreciation Society club: https://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=16200
Art house, avant-garde and experimental club: https://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=74845

The list also contains works by Takashi Itou which might rather be classified as still motion.

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/51626