Slowmation: A new form of stop-motion animation ‘Slowmation’ (abbreviated from ‘Slow Motion Animation’) is a new form of stop-motion animation that simplifies the usually complex process of making animations so that they can be created by learners (Hoban, 2005, 2007, 2009). Similar to other forms of stop-motion animation such as clay animation, Slowmation involves the manual manipulation of materials with a digital still photo taken at each change in position of the materials. The digital photos are then uploaded into a computer program which plays the photos in a sequence to create an illusion of movement and is seen by the human eye as moving by itself because of a phenomena called ‘persistence of vision’. The process involves students researching information, scripting, storyboarding, making models, photographing digital still images of small manual movements of the models and using a computer program such as Apple’s QuickTime Pro or Window’s Movie Maker to create the animation. Slowmation, however, is different from clay animation in six key ways as shown in Table 1. These differences mean that slowmation is simpler and less time consuming to make than clay animation and so becomes a feasible teaching approach in school classrooms.