Fashions come and go, but Estonia is still betting on puppet and stop-motion animation. “It may not be mainstream anymore, but Estonian stop-motion is still thriving, with many directors choosing it ...

As far as Tim Burton’s concerned, you can’t keep a good dog down. And you can’t keep a good, old-fashioned form of animation down, either. Burton’s boy-and-his-dead-dog tale “Frankenweenie” is ...

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, ...

“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 ...

In a sense, every film is a work of stop-motion animation. Think of it: Alfred Hitchcock tells Cary Grant to walk across the set. The camera exposes the film frame-by-frame, 24 still shots per second.

Boinx Software recently updated iStopMotion, to version 3, making its stop motion animation tool for Mac OS X, even better The new version adds the ability to create HD movies using an iPhone, iPad or ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES - As far as Tim Burton's concerned, you can't keep a good dog down. And you can't keep a good, old-fashioned form of animation down, either. Burton's boy-and-his-dead-dog tale ...

From cel animation to stop motion and 3D, the best animation styles can captivate audiences, but which one is for you?

Chris Butler, Oscar-nominated for the 2012 animated “ParaNorman,” is back in the race again with Laika’s “Missing Link,” a beautiful and sweet tale of friendship told in stop-motion. Butler says: ...

Stop motion is a complicated craft. Assembled together frame-by-frame, it’s a time-consuming process, and one that requires physical, real-world elements that move and articulate. It’s not for the ...