The best stop motion animated films bring something purely imagined to vivid life in a way that other animation techniques ...

Layann Basileh is an Arab-American writer based in Southern California, currently nursing an iced coffee addiction. Stop-motion animation is a beloved but sparingly employed film medium. Although it ...

The auteur responsible for 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' and 'Isle of Dogs' explains why he was drawn to stop-motion and how it influenced his aesthetic since. Unlike a number of other filmmakers, from ...

Dianne Jackson's The Snowman remains one of the most audacious experiments in animated storytelling ever broadcast. Based on ...

Donn Beach is the undisputed godfather of American tiki, which imitated – in a far different and more authentic way than we’re accustomed to today – the cultural iconography of tropical islands from ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. When Tim Burton and Michael Keaton finally decided to reteam for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, one ...

“Marcel the Shell” began as a series of lovingly crafted homemade shorts for YouTube by Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate. So when it came time to give the diminutive breakout star the feature film ...

A tattoo artist has created an incredible moving image of a scene from a Betty Boop cartoon, using 76 inkings. Phil Berge, based in Montreal, Canada, painstakingly tattooed a cartoon figure on various ...