As the company name suggests, Apartment D started in a living room. These days, Apartment D is a flourishing stop motion animation studio in Burbank, Calif., with a space to match its significant ...
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 ...
The hands that made “Coraline” and “Kubo and the Two Strings” unpack their most epic project to date. Laika doesn’t look like much on the outside. The studio operates out of an unassuming building in ...
When Bad Bunny’s team decided on a stop-motion frog character to star in a series of hybrid projects tied to the artist’s music, they wanted the work done in Puerto Rico. The projects were rooted in ...
Ted Sarandos, left, Guillermo del Toro and Gobelins school director Valérie Moatti Netflix “Frankenstein” director Guillermo del Toro and Netflix boss Ted Sarandos have unveiled plans for a ...
Hidden away in a cluster of nondescript buildings on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, the employees of Laika Studios are making something magical. Literally. The stop-motion studio behind Coraline ...
Even before Nike founder Phil Knight acquired the studio that would be renamed Laika in 2002, it was already a staple of the Oregon filmmaking landscape. Will Vinton Studios spent 30 years creating ...
"Wildwood" is the antidote to all of the worst trends in mainstream animation, but it gets lost somewhere in the wilderness between reality and imagination. The longest and most ambitious movie of its ...