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, ...

These days even a fledgling filmmaker who has access to a computer and a couple of programs can create practically any sort of digital images he or she desires. So why would anyone want to return to ...

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, ...

Producer and animator Ray Harryhausen, who invented a kind of stop motion model animation called ‘dynamation’ and created special effects for classics such as Jason and the Argonauts and One Million ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...