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 ...

Stop-motion animation, the film-making technique used to make Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” dates to the silent era of cinema. Examples include segments of the 1925 silent movie, “The ...

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 ...

In a box office climate where CGI animated films dominate, “Shaun the Sheep’s” directors find greener pastures in stop-motion animation. Manipulating real-life figures and models in front of a camera, ...

Check out this 2-minute masterpiece of the Star Wars Trilogy created using stop frame animation and paper. Watch the 2 min video after the jump. Enjoy. Created by Eric Power Up, this 2-minute paper ...

FULLERTON — Trevor Clarke, an animator and 3-D design student at Fullerton College, won a global design award for the character he created for use in stop-frame animation. To create the character, Roy ...

Origami artist Ross Symons uses Digital Anarchy's Flicker Free to create high end stop-motion animations for Pixar, Samsung, Red Bull and others. This story came in to us from the Digital Anarchy ...

Short of going out and adopting a dog (or two) at your local shelter (which I strongly recommend), the second-best way to give a dog a forever home is by picking up Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs, now on ...

Travis Knight is sitting in the back of Laika Experience, an exhibition at Comic-Con in San Diego, next to an interior set from his film Kubo and the Two Strings, one of several film sets stationed ...