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During the lockdown, I started studying tutorials about stop motion techniques, with the vague intention of trying my hand at some animation of my own. But my natural laziness intervened and I never ...

Stop animation is a time-consuming process, but that hasn’t stopped filmmakers from working within its imposing bounds. Here are some stop-animation touchstones, without some of which it’s hard to ...

A stop-motion animator can spend a week manipulating a small puppet around, frame by frame, for a total of just three seconds of footage. Why would anyone want to do that? The truth is, fewer and ...

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, ...

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Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice smiling Image via Warner Bros. Tim Burton returns to stop-motion animation with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara, and Winona Ryder reprise their ...

If you associate stop-motion animation primarily with Jack Skellington or the California Raisins, make room for new references. There's a puppet boom underway in Portland, compounding the city's ...