From cel animation to stop motion and 3D, the best animation styles can captivate audiences, but which one is for you?

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 ...

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio uses hand-crafted puppets and intricately detailed stop-motion animation to bring del Toro and co-director Mark Gustafson's "incredible vision" to life. It was led by ...

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, ...

The most amazing movie of the year was never meant to be a movie. A stop-motion animated feature so powerfully poignant you forget you’re watching puppets (except when directors Duke Johnson and ...

LAIKA, which brought viewers 'Paranorman,' continues to experiment with a "hybrid" approach to animation By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor A trio from Portland, Ore.-based animation studio LAIKA showed ...

Stop-motion animation is the painstaking art of bringing inanimate objects to life – one frame at a time. In this magical, ...

At this year's Comic-Con, the makers of the new stop-motion animated movie, The Boxtrolls, were unusually honest about the stress of making their film. Normally, at a panel in front of 6,000 people, ...

For Anel Muller, the stop-motion animation puppets at a collector's home didn't just provide a serendipitous experience - they exhilarated her imagination. "He tossed a small, black bird into my hand, ...

Travis Knight on the set of The Boxtrolls. Right—people often think animation is a single genre, but you don't see it that way. I can kind of excuse people for thinking that. As artists, I think we've ...