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, ...

Artist Hugo Crosthwaite fuses portraiture and figurative drawings into dynamic compositions influenced by images from the U.S./Mexico border. Most known for his stop-motion animation and public murals ...

Stop motion animation (also called stop frame animation) is a cinematic and creative technique that breathes life into physical objects through sequential photography. Objects are manipulated in tiny ...

Director Guillermo del Toro spent seven years trying to persuade Hollywood studios to film his unorthodox take on the Pinocchio folk tale. The renowned filmmaker pictured Pinocchio as a bratty kid ...

The best stop motion animated films bring something purely imagined to vivid life in a way that other animation techniques ...

Stop motion movies often go bitterly underappreciated, with many stunning masterpieces of animation frequently falling by the wayside. Somewhat of a niche medium, stop motion animation can often be ...

When most people think of anime, they think of either traditional 2D animated or 3DCG animated series or films. However, the medium of animation (let alone Japanese animation) is virtually unlimited ...

Although today's filmmakers prefer using CGI animation over stop-motion, you have to appreciate the time and meticulous attention to detail put into stop-motion animation films and projects. Image ...

On the set of "The Nightmare Before Christmas," a top stop motion musical fantasy film written and produced by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick. In many ways, stop-motion is older than the ...