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 ...

Stop-motion animation is among the most laborious and precise forms of artistry imaginable; the average animator produces only four seconds of footage per week. If they make a wrong movement, there is ...

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There’s more to Laika’s latest animated movie The Boxtrolls than meets the eye, not least in the way this ostensibly stop-motion creation seamlessly utilises modern animation techniques and even 3D ...

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 ...

That’s been readily apparent from the moment its extraordinary first movie, Coraline, hit theaters in 2009. In fact, the Portland, Oregon-based animation studio is a bona fide pioneer of its craft, ...

Beloved 1990s children’s TV show Pingu is making an epic comeback thanks to a partnership with an award-winning animation ...

A typical LAIKA movie set. Lately I’ve been exploring the world of Autodesk, whose self-description is that they “make software for people who make things.” They’ve been on a roll lately. Just this ...

The two met at Nexus Studios in 2014, and began collaborating in 2019. Now, they have formalized their creative partnership by launching as the directing duo Eastend Western, repped by Nexus. Both are ...

For the acclaimed director, writer and animator Henry Selick, stop-motion animation is magic. It’s a distinctly beautiful cinematic form, with everything from detailed puppets to vast sets brought to ...

It’s not often studios have voices — perhaps Pixar and Aardman are in that small group. And so, without a doubt, is Laika. The Portland, Ore., stop-motion animation company run by Travis Knight has ...

"Severance" production designer Jeremy Hindle and Starburns Michael Granberry tell IndieWire how a lack of surveillance footage from Season 1 led to the stop-motion sequence in the Season 2 premiere. ...