"Star Wars: Skeleton Crew" is already hitting its midpoint with this week's fourth episode, and while each individual chapter is shockingly short, easily clocking in at under 30 minutes excluding the ...

Pete Candeland is directing an upcoming stop-motion animated feature for Oregon-based Laika, the studio announced today. The untitled project is based on an original idea by Candeland, who joined the ...

“Stopmotion” takes your classic, tortured-artist psychological horror and wraps it up in a sensory nightmare. Robert Morgan’s feature-length debut combines live-action and stop-motion to tell the ...

Even before Nike founder Phil Knight acquired the studio that would be renamed Laika in 2002, it was already a staple of the Oregon filmmaking landscape. Will Vinton Studios spent 30 years creating ...

Laika‘s films possess a truly distinctive, dreamy quality, driven by their pioneering approach to stop-motion animation. Since their official arrival on the scene with the dark fantasy masterpiece, ...

The 2025 Academy Awards could shape up to be a big one for stop-motion animation. Australian director Adam Eliott’s Memoir of a Snail (2024) has raked in a nomination for Best Animated Feature Film, ...

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 ...

Based in Los Angeles, Devon is a screenwriter and producer in the independent film industry, bringing a cinephiles persepective. He works in creative development, writing script coverages and pitch ...

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 ...