In a world where media makers are acutely focused on creating narratives filled with empathetic characters in relatable environments, it seems worthwhile to look at the role artifice has played in the ...

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 ...

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, ...

A stop-motion animator can spend a week manipulating a small puppet around, frame by frame, for a total of just three seconds of footage. Why would anyone want to do that? The truth is, fewer and ...

The Boxtrolls is the latest movie from stop motion animation studio Laika, previously responsible for the award-winning Coraline and ParaNorman. Adapted from the novel Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow, ...

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 ...

Stop motion animation is a technique that brings static objects to life by capturing them frame by frame. Each frame is a photograph of the object in a slightly different position, and when these ...

Based in Los Angeles, Devon is a screenwriter and producer in the independent film industry, bringing a cinephiles persepective. He works in creative development, writing script coverages and pitch ...

Stop-motion animation has been made popular by the likes of Aardman’s Wallace and Gromit films but they’re not the only ones ...

"Severance" production designer Jeremy Hindle and Starburns Michael Granberry tell IndieWire how a lack of surveillance footage from Season 1 led to the stop-motion sequence in the Season 2 premiere. ...