Last year we made the stop motion movie Sweet Transformations using candy to make various Halloween shapes appear before your eyes. This year, photo editor Christopher Smith and I took a different ...

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, ...

Although today's filmmakers prefer using CGI animation over stop-motion, you have to appreciate the time and meticulous attention to detail put into stop-motion animation films and projects. Image ...

Stop motion movies often go bitterly underappreciated, with many stunning masterpieces of animation frequently falling by the wayside. Somewhat of a niche medium, stop motion animation can often be ...

With the upcoming streaming release of Henry Selick’s horror comedy Wendell & Wild, it seems like a good time to check out some spooky stop-motion creations of yesteryear. Selick’s The Nightmare ...

When it comes to horror movies, stop-motion animation has become one of the better forms for telling scary stories. Stop-motion has been around since the start of cinema, and it was even used in ...

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 ...

Layann Basileh is an Arab-American writer based in Southern California, currently nursing an iced coffee addiction. Stop-motion animation is a beloved but sparingly employed film medium. Although it ...

Since two of the five Academy Award nominees for best animated feature this year – Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham’s Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail — are ...