Sony Pictures' upcoming "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" still uses molding clay and traditional stop-motion animation to bring its wide-eyed characters to life, but creator Aardman Animations happily ...

The real-life Laika — a Russian street dog who became the first animal launched into orbit — lasted mere hours in space, but paved the way for humans to eventually follow in her tracks. Today, the ...

Today at SIGGRAPH 2014, Laika is presenting a session about the making of their upcoming stop motion feature The Boxtrolls and among the presenters is Brian McLean, the studio’s Director of Rapid ...

The final animation might be displayed as a poster, a flipbook, a digital animation file, or a part of a larger film. While the decline of printed matter has been predicted for decades, artists have ...

Stop-motion animation is among the most laborious and precise forms of artistry imaginable; the average animator produces only four seconds of footage per week. If they make a wrong movement, there is ...

“Without the use of 3D printing, and the capabilities of the Stratasys J750 full-color-multi-material 3D Printer, we simply could not have completed the build in time,” said Richard Pickersgill, ...

Director Jonathan Chong used a combination of projection mapping, 3D printing, stop-motion and animation to create the video for Dan Sultan's Magnetic track. Sultan briefed Chong to create a video ...