VLC Player is probably the best media player out there today — and it’s free and open source too. It can play virtually any video file format without complaint and doesn’t require any complicated ...

Stop motion animation (also called stop frame animation) is a cinematic and creative technique that breathes life into physical objects through sequential photography. Objects are manipulated in tiny ...

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio uses hand-crafted puppets and intricately detailed stop-motion animation to bring del Toro and co-director Mark Gustafson's "incredible vision" to life. It was led by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about commercial cinema technology and smart-home tech. A scene from Coraline, Laika's first feature from 2009. Laika has ...