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 ...

"It was by far the largest puppet we ever created. It seemed insane," says VFX supervisor Steve Emerson. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor “We were initially going to build a small, manageable skeleton, ...

The earworm song “It’s a Small World” may be a Disneyland staple, but stop motion moviemaking gives other meanings to the phrase. That’s not just a description of the doll-sized cavemen that stomp ...

At a press event for Netflix’s upcoming movie Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio in London this week, I got to hold Pinocchio’s hand. In fact, I held all of him. While Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. “If I could, I would make a puppet of every single person I’ve ever met.” “If I could, I would make a puppet of ...

The real-life Laika — a Russian street dog who became the first animal launched into orbit — lasted mere hours in space, but paved the way for humans to eventually follow in her tracks. Today, the ...

Director Travis Knight calls Laika Entertainment's ambitious new animated movie a "miniature David Lean film." By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor “We were trying to do a Kurosawan myth and miniature ...

If you thought Mexican animation had already reached its creative peak, think again. "Soy Frankelda" is creeping in from the shadows to rewrite everything we thought we knew about storytelling, horror ...

It’s a little on the nose that Robert Morgan’s first feature would be titled Stopmotion — the writer/director’s been an unabashedly gross-out micro-body-horror stop-motion animator-provocateur for 30 ...