When most people think of anime, they think of either traditional 2D animated or 3DCG animated series or films. However, the medium of animation (let alone Japanese animation) is virtually unlimited ...

Reflecting on the genre-bending success of his 1989 college project A Grand Day Out, filmmaker Nick Park claimed that the inspiration was relatively simple. “I had this idea about an English guy who ...

Stephen Chiodo grabbed his 35-millimeter camera, trekked to the wooded area behind Gracie’s dining facility on the RIT campus, and began photographing ground-level perspectives of foliage. Then it was ...

Oscar-winning Australian director Adam Elliot is at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival with his long-awaited second stop-motion feature Memoir of a Snail, which world premieres 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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Netflix’s Wednesday Season 2 — once again featuring the direction of Tim Burton — has ...

Director Guillermo del Toro spent seven years trying to persuade Hollywood studios to film his unorthodox take on the Pinocchio folk tale. The renowned filmmaker pictured Pinocchio as a bratty kid ...

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 ...