How PennWest Edinboro built a Hollywood-worthy animation program

PennWest Edinboro's animation program has a long history, with professors and graduates who have worked for Disney, Lucasfilm ...
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8 practical lessons for making stop motion animation

To mark Kuwait National Day, Dubai based filmmaker Luis Grolez was approached by Nescafé to produce a series of stop motion ads for the household name. The ad campaign captured four different ...
Drama Quarterly

Animating Small Prophets: Mackenzie Crook, Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson bring homunculi to life

Small Prophets creator Mackenzie Crook teams up with animation directors Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson to take DQ inside the stop-motion process behind the BBC series, working with puppets and ...
Cartoon Brew

It’s 2017, And L.A.’s Stop-Motion Artists Still Don’t Have A Union

Stop-motion animation is seemingly as popular as ever. But in Los Angeles, despite the consistency in productions, stop-motion artists are mostly left to fend for themselves when it comes to ...
Variety

Estonian Puppet and Stop-Motion Animation ‘May Not Be Mainstream, but It’s Still Thriving’

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 ...
Backstage

Making Magic Frame by Frame: Your Complete Guide to Stop Motion

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 ...
Cartoon Brew

Director Mike Johnson On 20 Years Of ‘Corpse Bride’: ‘Proving Stop-Motion Could Be As Smooth And As Fluid As Computer Animation’

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 ...