For Will Vinton, everything started with a lump of clay. During the 1960s, he was an architecture student at UC Berkeley when he became fascinated by the whimsical, organic work of Spanish architect ...

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, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Aardman Animations Stop-motion is a captivating animation technique that brings inanimate ...

Even in the age of CGI, films made using claymation—a portmanteau meaning “clay animation”—are still going strong. A host of movies using the stop-motion technique have been nominated for best ...

Perhaps animators just don’t get the respect they deserve. Even after a half-century of cinematic auteur theory, we seldom talk about “the great animation directors.” For every Walt Disney or Chuck ...

Stop-motion is a captivating animation technique that brings inanimate objects to life through a series of captured ...