Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. One of the most stunning movie moments I can remember is for the first time ...

There's a strange, special kind of magic at work in "The Boxtrolls." The latest gleefully Gothic offering from the stop-motion wizards at Laika Entertainment could have easily been sunk by its ...

Do not think outside "The Boxtrolls." Instead, give yourself over to the movie's captivating, inventive, scary-hilarious world. Jump in feet first, just like a Boxtroll entering the sewer system, and ...

Although today's filmmakers prefer using CGI animation over stop-motion, you have to appreciate the time and meticulous attention to detail put into stop-motion animation films and projects. Image ...

“The Boxtrolls” is a new stop-motion animated film about a young orphan boy raised by cave-dwelling trash collectors. But the film’s stop-motion animation is an involved process that took 18 months to ...

This week, the pioneering studio Laika returns with “Missing Link,” the stop-motion animated family film starring Hugh Jackman and Zach Galifianakis. With “Missing Link” landing in theaters on Friday, ...

Travis Knight on the set of The Boxtrolls. Right—people often think animation is a single genre, but you don't see it that way. I can kind of excuse people for thinking that. As artists, I think we've ...

The result is a more stylized, theatrical look along with more ambitious storytelling, and sure to be an Oscar contender for best animated feature. Laika previously helmed Oscar nominated animated ...

Stop-motion animation has been made popular by the likes of Aardman’s Wallace and Gromit films but they’re not the only ones ...

Stop motion movies often go bitterly underappreciated, with many stunning masterpieces of animation frequently falling by the wayside. Somewhat of a niche medium, stop motion animation can often be ...

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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 ...