The best stop motion animated films bring something purely imagined to vivid life in a way that other animation techniques can’t. While stop-motion animation is regarded as the easiest way into this ...

Stop motion animator and maker/hacker [James Wilkinson] is working on a project involving a real-world furry cat character called Billy Whiskers and decided that Billy’s lips would be moved one ...

The field of stop-motion movies is rich and there’s a lot more to discover besides the movie from Aardman and Laika (and filmmakers like Henry Selick and Wes Anderson). This survey of such films ...

The skeleton in "Kubo and the Two Strings" was an over 15-foot-tall puppet. It was created by Laika, a stop-motion animation house. You can watch an exclusive behind-the-scenes video of how ...

There are stick and rod puppets, shadow and stop–motion figures and marionettes ... “Those are all from a walk with my dog — the wood, the face, the black walnuts are from the tree in ...

The cheese-loving English inventor Wallace and his loyal dog Gromit have been stars since the beginning. In the 35 years since Nick Park introduced the world to his stop-motion creations and their ...

Stop motion animation is often called a lost art, as doing it (or at least, doing it well) is incredibly difficult and time consuming. Every detail on the screen, no matter how minute ...