When you hear the name Leonardo, you probably think about the hunky Leonardo DiCaprio, or if you’re a comic book fan, maybe Leo the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle … but did you know the Ninja Turtle and ...

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 ...

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 ...

When animator Stefan Gruber was eight, they saw a dog run across a wall, not in real life, but in Jules Engel’s hand-drawn short “Accident,” projected during a Pioneer Square art walk. That was the ...

Animation is one of cinema's richest and most evocative visual mediums, allowing endless possibilities to take shape on screen. It takes great skill and creativity, especially in stop-motion animation ...

It’s been six years since the release of “Missing Link,” the fifth stop-motion animated film from the Portland-based animation house Laika. If you don’t remember it, that’s because the $100 million ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about commercial cinema technology and smart-home tech. Frame by Frame celebrates the work of stop motion studio Laika. It ...