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, ...

The new Hulu comedy Crossing Swords isn’t your typical family-friendly stop-motion animation series. In fact, it’s not family-friendly at all — but you would know that already if you have seen ...

The 2025 Academy Awards shaped up to be a big one for stop-motion animation. Australian director Adam Eliott’s Memoir of a Snail (2024) raked in a nomination for Best Animated Feature Film, alongside ...

Stop-motion animation already requires saintly amounts of patience, but it’s especially tricky when you’re working with a medium as messy as water. In the making-of video below (folks who don’t speak ...

Tamara Finlay’s stop-motion animations are intimate meditations on memory, heritage, and generational ties. Growing up with Ukrainian grandparents in Dearborn, Michigan, a city defined by immigrant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...