Back in 2012, Chris Dicker saw an unusual short at a festival in Ireland. Fear of Flying was a playfully macabre tale of a bird who can’t bear to take wing — but what caught Dicker’s eye was the ...

Fashions come and go, but Estonia is still betting on puppet and stop-motion animation. “It may not be mainstream anymore, but Estonian stop-motion is still thriving, with many directors choosing it ...

If you're a fan of LAIKA Studios' stop-motion animated spectacles, you probably have a good idea of what you're in for when their latest film Missing Link heads into theaters this April: Stunning ...

Shadow Machine/Netflix In a career spanning more than three decades, Georgina Hayns has been making puppets that have been brought to life through the art of stop-motion animation on TV shows and ...

Hear from stop motion animators living across the globe about this creative filmmaking process. Stop motion animation is a special effects technique in which objects are physically manipulated in ...

The 2025 Academy Awards shaped up to be a big one for stop-motion animation. Australian director Adam Eliott’s Memoir of a Snail (2024) raked in a nomination for Best Animated Feature Film, alongside ...