This week, the pioneering studio Laika returns with “Missing Link,” the stop-motion animated family film starring Hugh Jackman and Zach Galifianakis. With “Missing Link” landing in theaters on Friday, ...

I grew up with the stop-motion animation of Aardman Animations and always thought of it as something that would be beyond me to create. After watching some old episodes, my kids were asking me how ...

Travis Knight on the set of The Boxtrolls. Right—people often think animation is a single genre, but you don't see it that way. I can kind of excuse people for thinking that. As artists, I think we've ...

Those who’ve spent much time watching jittering Lego blocks on YouTube, Wallace and Gromit shorts on an iPod, or recent Tim Burton animated films in the theater know that stop-motion movie-making is a ...

Playing God is a beautifully strange stop-motion short from Matteo Burani and Arianna Gheller that has been seven years in ...

Aardman co-founder Peter Lord was at FMX in Stuttgart last week dispensing wisdom about 40 years of stop-motion animation and storytelling, from Ray Harryhausen to Nick Park. Aardman co-founder Peter ...

Learn the basics of stop-motion animation through Animation-ish’s clever three-level process. Animation-ish ($60, free demo) is a very simple, intuitive, sensibly progressive tool to learn stop-frame ...

October is the season for scarves, pumpkin spice lattes, complaining about pumpkin spice lattes, decorative gourds, changing leaves, and stressing about group Halloween costumes. But it's also the ...

Less than a year after making the world’s smallest animation, Nokia just ticked off that large, lurking item on the to-do list: conjuring the world’s largest stop motion animation. The new film, Gulp, ...

HILLSBORO, Ore. & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Award-winning animation studio LAIKA, known for Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, and Missing Link, has built its global ...