Though it has some story issues, Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi's The Boxtrolls is a technical marvel, a traditional stop-motion animation film that uses modern technology to augment the original ...

For over twenty years, Laika has been considered by many to be the premier studio responsible for creating the biggest ...

Water is a challenge in many forms of animation, including when it's drawn using paints or inks of when it's created ...

The groundbreaking stop-motion film studio celebrates its 20th anniversary with not only its latest feature, Wildwood, but also a comprehensive new book reflecting on the studio’s two decades of ...

The Boxtrolls is a kiddie charmer that makes you laugh, cower, and think of Hitler. That’s an unusual trifecta, but then again, this is an unusual film. If the German Expressionists were skilled at ...

The dance sequence — less than 2 minutes of the film — took Laika 18 months to animate By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor When this season’s Annie Award nominations for animation were announced, it was ...

The titular protagonists of “The Boxtrolls” — an animated adventure loosely based on the book “Here Be Monsters!” by British author and illustrator Alan Snow — are a colony of lumpy, gray homunculi ...

A spooky surrealism has been the specialty of the Oregon-based animation studio Laika, the Pacific Northwest purveyors of 3-D stop-motion. The self-stylized descendants of the Brothers Grimm and Neil ...

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