In a world where media makers are acutely focused on creating narratives filled with empathetic characters in relatable environments, it seems worthwhile to look at the role artifice has played in the ...

Stop motion animation (also called stop frame animation) is a cinematic and creative technique that breathes life into physical objects through sequential photography. Objects are manipulated in tiny ...

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

The first thing from AAPT that I would like to mention is SAM Animation that Brian Gravel demonstrated. SAM is free software that allows for the easy creation of stop motion animations. Basically, you ...

Melissa Bloom, owner and founder of The Sister's Bloom, on set during a project. (Photo provided.) Melissa Bloom stages a shot for a stop-motion film at The Sister's Bloom studio in Kalispell. (Photo ...

Stop motion animation is a technique that brings static objects to life by capturing them frame by frame. Each frame is a photograph of the object in a slightly different position, and when these ...

In more recent years, feature length stop-motion animation films like “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Coraline,” and “Fantastic Mr. Fox” have gained wide audiences for the animation style. But it’s ...

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On the set of "The Nightmare Before Christmas," a top stop motion musical fantasy film written and produced by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick. In many ways, stop-motion is older than the ...