The prospect of creating a stop motion film is daunting, to say the least. The process of taking a photo, altering a scene slightly, then taking another photo, over ...
The animation uses the action figure itself as Conan hacks and slices through a pink tentacle that gushes green goo when cut. It’s bloody, pulpy, and brilliantly tactile, a reminder of how stop-motion ...
Apple TV+’s new kids and family series Shape Island comes out today, and to mark the occasion we sat down with director and executive producer Drew Hodges who talked us through a scene from the show ...
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 ...
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 ...
The exhibit “Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio” opened June 10 at the Portland Art Museum. This is an exhibition dedicated to the first stop-motion animation film created by del Toro. Known for ...
Stop-motion is a captivating animation technique that brings inanimate objects to life through a series of captured ...
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 ...
Stop-motion animation is one of the most painstaking and time-consuming forms of visual art, often taking hundreds of hours for just a few seconds of footage. In video games, it’s even rarer, since ...
Henry Selick is one of the greatest directors of stop-motion films. He began working at Disney in the 1970s as an in-betweener on films such as Pete's Dragon, The Small One, and The Fox and the Hound, ...
The dance sequence — less than 2 minutes of the film — took Laika 18 months to animate By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor When this season’s Annie Award nominations for animation were announced, it was ...
The most memorable and impactful stop-motion moments from our childhood were all the really freaky ones. Perhaps it’s because the medium lends itself so readily to creepiness; there’s a lot of charm ...