‘LAIKA: The Magic Behind a Stop-Motion Dream Factory’ to be Published by Rizzoli Universe

LAIKA ‘s films possess a truly distinctive, dreamy quality, driven by their pioneering approach to stop-motion animation.
Yahoo

A Timeline of Stop-Motion Animation History, From ‘A Trip to the Moon’ to ‘Missing Link’ (Photos)

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, ...
Fast Company

The “World’s Largest” Stop Motion Animation Was Created With A Nokia N8

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, ...
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This stunning stop-motion film is making animation history – and Guillermo del Toro helped make it possible

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Cinema Fantasma / The Ambriz Bros. Imagine crafting an entire stop-motion feature with ...
The Spokesman-Review

Lego stop-motion animation class offers way to expand fun with popular toy

Dylan Nusbaum moved quickly setting up Lego props as he heard ideas flow from his daughter Claire, 8, to film a movie with a castle scene. The pair then took a blast of quick photos using an iPad as ...
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Create a fake stop motion effect in After Effects (no plugins!) - 358

In this After Effects tutorial, you'll learn how to create a fake stop motion text effect without any third-party plugins. We ...
Macworld

Create stop-motion animation

Those who’ve spent much time watching jittering Lego blocks on YouTube, Wallace and Gromit shorts on an iPod, or recent Tim Burton animated films in the theater know that stop-motion movie-making is a ...
Los Angeles Times

There’s no stopping this old-school style

IN 1999, when director Nick Park was in production on his stop-motion animated feature “Chicken Run,” the conventional wisdom in Hollywood held that computer-generated films such as “Toy Story” and “A ...
PC World

Create Stop-Motion Animation With Fun-to-Use Animation-ish

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 ...
Wired

The Man Who Brought Stop-Motion Animation Into the 21st Century

Travis Knight on the set of The Boxtrolls. Right—people often think animation is a single genre, but you don't see it that way. I can kind of excuse people for thinking that. As artists, I think we've ...
Wired

How to Do Stop-Motion Animation on a Budget

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 ...