Laika Needs ‘Wildwood’ to Be About More Than the Stop-Motion Craft That Went Into It: ‘Prestige Alone Isn’t Enough’

The Portland-based animation studio's first movie in seven years is aggressively working to position itself as a theatrical ...
KSHB Kansas City

KC art institute professor creates stop motion animation for shows, music videos, and commercials

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When the lights and camera turn on inside Bona Bones’ Kansas City, Missouri, studio, the action is a little slower than you’d expect. “It’s a really time-consuming process,” Bones ...
Fast Company

How movie studio Laika and Intel are revolutionizing stop-motion animation with AI

The acclaimed studio behind ‘Missing Link’ and ‘Coraline’ is collaborating with Intel to create an AI tool that could be a big leap in stop-motion animation. For the past 15 years, movie production ...
Los Angeles Times

Inside the animation process for ‘Marcel the Shell’s’ big screen glow up

“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 ...
IndieWire

‘Memoir of a Snail’ Celebrates the ‘Lumps and Bumps’ of Truly Handmade Stop Motion

Director Adam Elliot tells IndieWire about making a "chunky wonky" animated film in shades of brown. “We wanted to celebrate the lumps and bumps,” Elliot told IndieWire. “We use two words a lot in the ...
Los Angeles Times

Guillermo del Toro on animator Mark Gustafson: ‘His resourcefulness will have no parallel — ever’

Every second counts when you work in stop-motion animation. The process essentially consists of taking a photo of an object and then moving it slightly to take another one until the assembled sequence ...

'My stop-motion film plays a part in a big cultural story'

Lily-Joy Lancashire's two-and-a-half minute animation brings a 19th Century Manx folktale to life.