Several modeling techniques were used to marvelous effect in the directorial debut of Travis Knight, the head of Portland, Ore.-based Laika studios. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Stop-motion ...

Welcome to Series Craft, a new site feature in which we explore a particular creative facet of animation production in depth and discuss the choices that lead to the finished result. In this ...

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio uses hand-crafted puppets and intricately detailed stop-motion animation to bring del Toro and co-director Mark Gustafson's "incredible vision" to life. It was led by ...

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, ...

For the past 15 years, movie production studio Laika has been a pioneer in animation by seamlessly blending the tactical artistry of stop-motion with technological advancements including CGI and 3D ...

The most amazing movie of the year was never meant to be a movie. A stop-motion animated feature so powerfully poignant you forget you’re watching puppets (except when directors Duke Johnson and ...

Stop-motion animation is among the most laborious and precise forms of artistry imaginable; the average animator produces only four seconds of footage per week. If they make a wrong movement, there is ...

At this year's Comic-Con, the makers of the new stop-motion animated movie, The Boxtrolls, were unusually honest about the stress of making their film. Normally, at a panel in front of 6,000 people, ...

“Marcel the Shell” began as a series of lovingly crafted homemade shorts for YouTube by Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate. So when it came time to give the diminutive breakout star the feature film ...