Coraline has climbed to second place on the Top 10 Stop-Motion Movies at the US Box Office, surpassing The Nightmare Before Christmas. With consistent success since re-release, Coraline has made over ...

There's a strange, special kind of magic at work in "The Boxtrolls." The latest gleefully Gothic offering from the stop-motion wizards at Laika Entertainment could have easily been sunk by its ...

Do not think outside "The Boxtrolls." Instead, give yourself over to the movie's captivating, inventive, scary-hilarious world. Jump in feet first, just like a Boxtroll entering the sewer system, and ...

Marianelli loves animation and especially stop-motion. “I wanted to run away with the circus, and be part of what they were doing,” he admits. “The extra appeal, on this movie, came from the space ...

Although today's filmmakers prefer using CGI animation over stop-motion, you have to appreciate the time and meticulous attention to detail put into stop-motion animation films and projects. Image ...

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 ...

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On the set of "The Nightmare Before Christmas," a top stop motion musical fantasy film written and produced by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick. In many ways, stop-motion is older than the ...

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 ...