The British special effects artist, sculptor, and model maker known for his work on ‘Alien’ and ‘When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth’ passed away in his North Wales home on February 18.
The award-winning stop-motion studio’s academy inks 5-year agreement with the New Zealand university, making it the country’s only school to offer animation students training with stopmo curriculum.
Catya Plate’s award-winning stop-motion short screens as part of the ‘Environmentally Speaking Bloc’ at the Queens World Film Festival, running April 17-27; tickets are now available.
The studio behind ‘The Clangers’ and the first season of ‘The Tiny Chef Show’ has already laid off eight staff members, with puppets and studio equipment headed to auction after ‘challenging market conditions’ shuttered the company.
LA-based Iranian stop-motion artist discusses his move from Iran to the U.S., his unexpected entry into stop-motion animation and his recently launched Motion Control Kit’s capabilities.
The UK broadcaster's new promotional series, paying homage to the famed ‘Creature Comforts’ franchise, transforms viewers' favorite programs into animated shorts using the iconic studio's celebrated mix of humor and stop-motion.
The award-winning animation studio announces a new 20-episode Season 7 and Season 3, respectively, for its 2 most popular stop-motion shows.
The Emmy Award-winning preschool series cooks up new episodes with Chef embarking on herbivorous adventures with a lineup of celebrity guests and his enthusiastic robot buddy, Ruby; coming April 8.
The amateur animator shares how she used Instagram’s algorithms to her advantage, the niche she discovered and how she capitalized on it.
The Australian animator discusses making his short ‘An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It’ and his journey to the Academy Awards.
The 25-year-old data analyst shares how he picked up Blender as a hobby, created a unique animation style and subsequently saw his short animations go viral on social.
The latest survey takes a break from the usual focus on new shorts to highlight classic films connected by a specific technique.
The 90-second short, created by the Grammy-nominated recording artist in partnership with conceptual artist Alex Da Corte, serves as the first single for the singer’s debut album, ‘WORLD WIDE WHACK,’ out March 15.
The animator, director, and writer shares her journey that led from a shed rental in New Zealand to partnering with Kristen Bell and ultimately scoring a deal with Nickelodeon.
The Oscar, Annie, Emmy, and BAFTA-winning creative, known for his work on ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox,’ ‘Meet the Raisins,’ and many other stop-motion projects, has died of a heart attack.
The 2023 NYC Women’s Fund Recipient, artist and filmmaker Catya Plate, brings the third short of her award-winning stop-motion animated trilogy to the festival’s monthly screening event in Los Angeles, January 31.
The new adult animated parody, co-created by Woods with Mike Judge and Brandon Gardner and produced by Oscar-winning ShadowMachine, follows NPR’s third most popular host, a well-meaning puppet - and nimrod - interviewing real celebrity guests with no knowledge of what they’ll be asked, premieres January 25 on Peacock.
Just when you thought it safe to turn your back on creepy little puppet characters while making a stop-motion film… Robert Morgan’s incredibly disturbing new horror film will give you a total case of the willies, hitting theaters February 23 before making its way to Shudder on May 31.
The UK studio’s charming stop-motion holiday special, featuring puppets made from felt and starring Gillian Anderson and Richard E Grant, could be set for another installment, according to co-writers and co-directors Dan Ojari and Mikey Please.
The U.K.-based Moon Studios founder shares his professional journey from launching his own studio to landing work with clients like Nickelodeon, Felix the 1st, and Far Caspian.
The 24th edition of the global media and entertainment convention runs from March 5 – March 7 in Mumbai.
The director of Aardman and Netflix’s acclaimed ‘Chicken Run’ sequel discusses why the ‘heart is in hand-made’ and how the vibrant medium of stop-motion animation, like no other, helps visualize the fun, heartfelt story of Ginger, Rocky, their daughter Molly, and where nuggets really come from.
In the Grammy Award-nominated short film, the artist explores the space between ‘dreaming and wakefulness,’ creating and morphing 1,300 oil paintings by hand to honor the re-release of The Beatles’ seminal 1966 album, ‘Revolver.’
Animator, illustrator, and teacher Al Bohl uses paper cut-out silhouette animation, pioneered a century ago by German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger, to tell the timeless – and timely - story of a stranger who helps a man laying beaten and bleeding on the side of the road.
Released at COP28, the short integrates stop-motion animation with real smoke, immersing viewers in a world where a young girl confronts a smoke-filled environment; experience the film and take a look behind the scenes.
