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NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Stop motion animation is a technique as old as cinema itself creating one frame at a time by hand using puppets moved ever so slightly between shots. When shown one after ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week, the pioneering studio Laika returns with “Missing Link,” the stop-motion animated family film starring Hugh Jackman and ...

Stop-motion cartoons may seem a bit old school for a super-high-tech graphics event like SIGGRAPH. But the brains behind 'Shaun the Sheep Movie' are there to offer a warning: "Danger if you take ...

Several modeling techniques were used to marvelous effect in the directorial debut of Travis Knight, the head of Portland, Ore.-based Laika studios. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Stop-motion ...

Charles Solomon is an animation historian and critic for Airtalk's Filmweek and Off-Ramp. Six of the top 20 movies of the year so far are animated films, all of them CG. But as you can see in two new ...