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 ...

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 ...

In a box office climate where CGI animated films dominate, “Shaun the Sheep’s” directors find greener pastures in stop-motion animation. Manipulating real-life figures and models in front of a camera, ...

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 ...

In a sense, every film is a work of stop-motion animation. Think of it: Alfred Hitchcock tells Cary Grant to walk across the set. The camera exposes the film frame-by-frame, 24 still shots per second.

“Marcel the Shell” began as a series of lovingly crafted homemade shorts for YouTube by Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate. So when it came time to give the diminutive breakout star the feature film ...

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 ...

As far as Tim Burton’s concerned, you can’t keep a good dog down. And you can’t keep a good, old-fashioned form of animation down, either. Burton’s boy-and-his-dead-dog tale “Frankenweenie” is ...

Stop Motion Animation has always been interesting to me since I “discovered” that one could make animated flip books by drawing each frame a little different. Fast forward 20 years or so, and computer ...

FULLERTON — Trevor Clarke, an animator and 3-D design student at Fullerton College, won a global design award for the character he created for use in stop-frame animation. To create the character, Roy ...

Check out this 2-minute masterpiece of the Star Wars Trilogy created using stop frame animation and paper. Watch the 2 min video after the jump. Enjoy. Created by Eric Power Up, this 2-minute paper ...