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 ...

In a world where media makers are acutely focused on creating narratives filled with empathetic characters in relatable environments, it seems worthwhile to look at the role artifice has played in the ...

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 ...

In the wonderfully amusing short film “Sleepy Steve,” the man of the title steps out of bed and makes his way to the bathroom to get ready for the day. Except nothing about this process looks quite ...

Stop-motion animation has been made popular by the likes of Aardman’s Wallace and Gromit films but they’re not the only ones ...

Stop-motion films are incredibly difficult to make, requiring animators to take thousands upon thousands of pictures as they pose and barely move figures and set-pieces in order create a film.

In more recent years, feature length stop-motion animation films like “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Coraline,” and “Fantastic Mr. Fox” have gained wide audiences for the animation style. But it’s ...

Stop motion animation is a technique that brings static objects to life by capturing them frame by frame. Each frame is a photograph of the object in a slightly different position, and when these ...

The first thing from AAPT that I would like to mention is SAM Animation that Brian Gravel demonstrated. SAM is free software that allows for the easy creation of stop motion animations. Basically, you ...

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 ...