Layann Basileh is an Arab-American writer based in Southern California, currently nursing an iced coffee addiction. Stop-motion animation is a beloved but sparingly employed film medium. Although it ...

Laika, the stop motion animation studio behind films like Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, isn't afraid to embrace new technology. We chronicled how it used 3D printing to add a whole new level ...

FPS The creator of popular animated short The Backwater Gospel is making an FPS inspired by 'Half-Life and the golden age of narrative first person shooters' Sim Starsand Island is a warm, familiar ...

Stop motion movies often go bitterly underappreciated, with many stunning masterpieces of animation frequently falling by the wayside. Somewhat of a niche medium, stop motion animation can often be ...

Director Guillermo del Toro spent seven years trying to persuade Hollywood studios to film his unorthodox take on the Pinocchio folk tale. The renowned filmmaker pictured Pinocchio as a bratty kid ...

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 ...

Ahmad is a video game fanatic. He always carries his PSVita with him wherever he goes so he can play Metal Gear Solid on the go, and his socials are filled with gaming news. He also lifts weights ...

HILLSBORO, Ore. & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Award-winning animation studio LAIKA, known for Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, and Missing Link, has built its global ...

Twenty Halloweens ago, Tim Burton conjured Corpse Bride, a fantasy fable that spans the world of the living and the land of the dead. Building on the stylings of The Nightmare Before Christmas, which ...

“The Primevals,” a movie in the lineage of “Jason and the Argonauts,” was filmed 30 years ago. It has finally been released. By Christopher Kuo Movies like “Dune: Part Two” and “Challengers” arrived ...

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride is back in theaters to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary, and to help honor the stop-motion classic this weekend at The LightBox Expo — also known as LBX — are three of ...