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 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 ...
There's something about stop-motion 3D animation -- the not-quite-real textures of skin and hair, the quite real cloth and metal, the subtle gloomy lighting effects -- that says "spooky." All the best ...