Wildwood, set in a magical world in the unruly forests bordering Portland, Oregon, is the newest film from animation house Laika. Founded in 2005, the studio became acclaimed for its work on films ...

Stop motion is a special type of animation. It uses real objects—instead of drawings or computer-generated images—to tell a story. The story characters can be people, animals, or even everyday objects ...

There's something intrinsically human about stop-motion animation. It requires building small sets and figurines that must be meticulously positioned for 24 frames-per-second to give the feeling of ...

Travis Knight built 231 puppets and 136 sets to make "Wildwood." Over the Laika film's opening three-day weekend, audiences ...

"Wildwood" director Travis Knight and screenwriter Chris Butler recall the making of Laika Studios' new stop-motion animated film.

Prue and Curtis meet a colorful band of characters: Brenden (Mahershala Ali), the Bandit King; the giant eagle known as General (Angela Bassett) and the wise old owl, Rex (Jemaine Clement), just to ...

Mexican production company Península Films & Entertainment has boarded "Insectario," the debut feature of stop-motion animation wunderkind Sofía Carrillo ("Cerulia"). Eduardo Díaz Casanova of ...

Norwegian stop motion filmmaker Ivo Caprino took nearly five years to bring his tiny race car vision to life on the silver screen in 1975. "The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix" began as a series of shorts ...

Many artists today are bringing together analog and digital tools to tell technically advanced yet distinctly human stories. One medium that blends these two modes particularly well is stop motion ...