Yahoo

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 ...

Stranger Things actor's stop-motion George Harrison video is all heart and soul

The video for the late former Beatle's 1973 song Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) was directed by Finn Wolfhard, who's ...
OPB

REBROADCAST: From ‘Corpse Bride’ to ‘Pinocchio,’ Georgina Hayns reflects on bringing puppets to life on the big screen

Shadow Machine/Netflix In a career spanning more than three decades, Georgina Hayns has been making puppets that have been brought to life through the art of stop-motion animation on TV shows and ...
Polygon

Guillermo del Toro wants to revive the ‘sacred’ bond between animator and puppet

At a press event for Netflix’s upcoming movie Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio in London this week, I got to hold Pinocchio’s hand. In fact, I held all of him. While Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of ...
Oregonian

‘Pinocchio’ Oscar casts spotlight on Portland filmmaking, and stop-motion animation

Director Guillermo del Toro spent seven years trying to persuade Hollywood studios to film his unorthodox take on the Pinocchio folk tale. The renowned filmmaker pictured Pinocchio as a bratty kid ...
GamesRadar+

Move over Five Nights at Freddy’s, stop motion animation is the next big thing in horror not animatronics, and Stopmotion director Robert Morgan knows exactly why

Horror movies nowadays take advantage of all different art forms and objects to create scares such as AI in Late Night with the Devil, extreme prosthetics in Barbarian, and the use of animatronics in ...