Indie animation is - at the risk of overstating - really, really goddamn cool. It's at the indie level of any medium where ...

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, ...

Coraline was marketed as a children’s film, but its horror, villain, and stop-motion animation make it one of the scariest ...

LAIKA ‘s films possess a truly distinctive, dreamy quality, driven by their pioneering approach to stop-motion animation.

PORT TOWNSEND — Veteran animation artist Jim Bradrick will offer a new class for young people: “Basics of Animation for Youth: Stop Motion with Your Smartphone or Tablet.” The class will be conducted ...

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, ...

Dylan Nusbaum moved quickly setting up Lego props as he heard ideas flow from his daughter Claire, 8, to film a movie with a castle scene. The pair then took a blast of quick photos using an iPad as ...

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 ...

IN 1999, when director Nick Park was in production on his stop-motion animated feature “Chicken Run,” the conventional wisdom in Hollywood held that computer-generated films such as “Toy Story” and “A ...

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 ...

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 ...