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, ...

Stop-motion animation has been made popular by the likes of Aardman’s Wallace and Gromit films but they’re not the only ones ...

If you’ve ever watched an animation you made in After Effects and thought, “this works, but it doesn’t feel right,” you’re not alone. It may be because the timing feels stiff or the motion looks ...

Naomi: Hi! Oh what’s going on here? Naomi: This isn’t right – I feel a bit peculiar! Naomi: Well that was strange! Anyway, I’m here at this animation studio to set you a challenge. Naomi: This studio ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Every year at the Game Developers Conference, a handful of competing companies show off their latest motion-capture technology, which transforms human performances into 3D animations ...

Animation has been captivating audiences for more than a hundred years. From classic forms like hand drawn and stop-motion, to cutting-edge techniques like motion graphics and CGI, animation has a ...

Producer and animator Ray Harryhausen, who invented a kind of stop motion model animation called ‘dynamation’ and created special effects for classics such as Jason and the Argonauts and One Million ...