Stop-motion animation has been made popular by the likes of Aardman’s Wallace and Gromit films but they’re not the only ones ...

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, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Nexus Studios The best stop motion animated films bring something purely imagined to ...

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 ...

As the company name suggests, Apartment D started in a living room. These days, Apartment D is a flourishing stop motion animation studio in Burbank, Calif., with a space to match its significant ...

Several modeling techniques were used to marvelous effect in the directorial debut of Travis Knight, the head of Portland, Ore.-based Laika studios. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Stop-motion ...

My son has always been into scene-setting and storytelling. He’s the sort of kid who brings a couple of “guys” with him in the car, no matter how short a distance we’ll be traveling, so he can act out ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. That refrain — "there are easier ways, but we challenge ourselves to take ultra-detailed, ...

Despite earning a Best Animated Film Oscar nomination for all their feature work--2009's Coraline, 2014's The Boxtrolls, and 2012's ParaNorman--stop-motion movie studio Laika Entertainment has yet to ...