Stop-motion films are incredibly difficult to make, requiring animators to take thousands upon thousands of pictures as they pose and barely move figures and set-pieces in order create a film.

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 ...

The best stop motion animated films bring something purely imagined to vivid life in a way that other animation techniques ...

How did “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” a short created in one person’s bedroom, become a full-scale, stop-motion feature film? Meticulously. By Jason Bailey When the director Dean Fleischer Camp ...

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, ...

On the set of "The Nightmare Before Christmas," a top stop motion musical fantasy film written and produced by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick. In many ways, stop-motion is older than the ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. When Tim Burton and Michael Keaton finally decided to reteam for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, one ...