"Wildwood" director Travis Knight and screenwriter Chris Butler recall the making of Laika Studios' new stop-motion animated ...

"A movie is an invisible handshake. It's only complete when the filmmaker reaches out their hand and the audience ...

The director of Wildwood tells us about the innovations that allowed the team at Laika to produce the epic new stop-motion ...

Stop-motion movies can be amazing from start to finish, but bringing this kind of animated feature to life can take years of hard work.

Sam was born in a hand-drawn four-minute animated short film that I made back in the day, and by working with Trent Shy and the other filmmakers and the other animators, I'm kind of bringing Sam ...

Amid a deluge of CGI movies, “Kubo and the Two Strings” could be considered something of a throwback. But while it was made using the time-honoured technique of stop-motion puppetry, it also relies on ...

In a year in which the film industry was still in disruption because of the formidable powers of digital streaming, stop-motion animation — maybe the most analog of all styles of filmmaking — has had ...

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