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, ...

Emmy-winning animator Drew Hodges worked on the 2015 stop-motion film, which became the first-ever R-rated Best Animated ...

The video for the late former Beatle's 1973 song Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) was directed by Finn Wolfhard, who's ...

Less than a year after making the world’s smallest animation, Nokia just ticked off that large, lurking item on the to-do list: conjuring the world’s largest stop motion animation. The new film, Gulp, ...

Layann Basileh is an Arab-American writer based in Southern California, currently nursing an iced coffee addiction. Stop-motion animation is a beloved but sparingly employed film medium. Although it ...

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 ...

Those who’ve spent much time watching jittering Lego blocks on YouTube, Wallace and Gromit shorts on an iPod, or recent Tim Burton animated films in the theater know that stop-motion movie-making is a ...

IN 1999, when director Nick Park was in production on his stop-motion animated feature “Chicken Run,” the conventional wisdom in Hollywood held that computer-generated films such as “Toy Story” and “A ...

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 ...

I grew up with the stop-motion animation of Aardman Animations and always thought of it as something that would be beyond me to create. After watching some old episodes, my kids were asking me how ...

Travis Knight on the set of The Boxtrolls. Right—people often think animation is a single genre, but you don't see it that way. I can kind of excuse people for thinking that. As artists, I think we've ...