Director Travis Knight and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel spoke at the Telluride Film Festival about the challenges of their feature years in the making.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The best stop motion animated films bring something purely imagined to vivid life in a way that other animation techniques can't.

Laika studio head and Wildwood director Travis Knight explains how the new animated feature came to life without the use of ...

Travis Knight, the chief executive of the stop-motion animation studio Laika, wasn’t prepared for the response to the teaser for his new film, “Wildwood.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every element that goes into a film has its milestone moments in Hollywood history, and for stop-motion animation on film, the iconic, groundbreaking King Kong of 1933 is one. Not just for stop-motion ...

Based in Los Angeles, Devon is a screenwriter and producer in the independent film industry, bringing a cinephiles persepective. He works in creative development, writing script coverages and pitch ...

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 ...