Welcome to Series Craft, a new site feature in which we explore a particular creative facet of animation production in depth and discuss the choices that lead to the finished result. In this ...

Fashions come and go, but Estonia is still betting on puppet and stop-motion animation. “It may not be mainstream anymore, but Estonian stop-motion is still thriving, with many directors choosing it ...

The most amazing movie of the year was never meant to be a movie. A stop-motion animated feature so powerfully poignant you forget you’re watching puppets (except when directors Duke Johnson and ...

“Anomalisa,” one of the great films of 2015, is an R-rated animated feature about adults, made for adults. It represents a breakthrough not in terms of technology, though it’s technically expert, but ...

Tired of the slow pace of animation production? A new tool is on hand — literally — to help speed things up. Mr. Puppet Animation System is the brainchild of Thinko, a young New York studio with a ...

PARIS: The French production outfit Moving Puppet is developing two new projects, an adaptation of the stop-motion short Chapi Chapo and the original live-action/2D hybrid Poilyphonies. Moving Puppet ...

You’ve heard of math savants and chess geniuses, but Barnaby Dixon might be a young prodigy when it comes to designing puppets. His latest creation is easily the most detailed and animated finger ...

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Most often, Oscar voters look upon the Best Animated Feature category as the toon version of Best Picture and leave it at that. Talking to Academy members in this wide-open year, though, one of the ...