Res Animata Studio

A small throwback, from autumn to now. 🍂🐌

This claymation video was originally made to celebrate our first 500 followers on Instagram.
A tiny, slow-paced world — very autumnal, very handmade — with a couple of clay snails quietly doing their thing.

Fast forward a few months:
today we’re more than 2,200 followers, and Res Animata has been officially alive for just over a year.

We like to think this video still represents us quite well:
slow processes, tactile materials, attention to detail, and stories that take their time.

If you want to follow our stop-motion experiments, tiny worlds and behind-the-scenes moments, you’ll find us on Instagram too. 🐌✨

🎄❤️🧠 Does Santa exist or not?

Heart and Brain never fully agree.
One wants to believe. The other keeps asking uncomfortable questions.

This year marked almost one year since we officially founded Res Animata — and sometimes it still feels just as unreal.

We built our studio from scratch, produced our first commissioned works, developed original projects, and learned how to balance ambition with reality.

The future may not fully exist yet — but we’re animating it, one frame at a time.

Thank you for being part of the journey.

A small gesture can reshape everything. / Un piccolo gesto può cambiare la forma delle cose. 🎄✨

Quest'anno abbiamo affidato alla plastilina un messaggio che ci sta molto a cuore: in mezzo alla corsa ai regali, le nostre scelte contano.

Sostenere le ONG, le realtà no-profit e i piccoli artigiani locali è un modo concreto per trasformare le feste in un gesto di solidarietà e cura.

Make a choice.

Buone Feste da tutto il team di Res Animata! 💛

🎄🎅 Christmas is always a rush… even for Santa.

Maybe that’s why he doesn’t always stick the landing when coming down the chimney. 🎁💨

It’s not perfect — and that’s part of the fun.

Wishing you a Christmas full of laughter, magic, and a little controlled chaos.

🎄✨ Behind the scenes of Blackball's Christmas stop-motion film.

From handmade paper and felt sets to a playful 8-ball journey through surreal slides and a Christmas forest, this project was entirely built and animated by hand.

We loved collaborating with Blackball on their Season’s Greetings video celebrating their partnership with Forestami, Milan’s reforestation project. 🌳

A festive story with a very real commitment behind it: planting trees and building a greener future, one small action at a time.

December comes with a few certainties:

🎄 endless lunches and dinners
🍰 and an unavoidable glycemic peak

We imagined it like this:
a huge sugar mountain our brain enthusiastically decides to climb…
only to crash dramatically about an hour after the third slice of panettone. 😴

Behind the joke, there’s what we love doing most:
real materials, physical sets, frame-by-frame animation, and small handcrafted stories that talk about very human experiences — like eating way too much during the holidays.

A playful little stop-motion exercise, made just for fun, and perfect to watch somewhere between dessert and a post-lunch nap on the couch.

Happy glycemic peak to everyone. 🎅🍽️

🔥 Among the works we love the most, this is one of the smallest.
And yet, one of the most magical. 🦉✨

This little felt owl was born during an intensive stop-motion workshop at IED Milano, with whom we’ve been collaborating for years between teaching, experimentation, and hands-on animation.

Built by a student from a simple piece of felt, it came to life on a snowy miniature set — wool campfires, paper mountains, sugar snow — and was animated frame by frame.

A simple exercise, almost playful, but very close to how we love to work:
real materials, small worlds, and stories shaped slowly by hand.

Maybe we’re sharing it now because, with the first snow of these days, we all feel a little bit inside that forest.