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The film's exaggerated reality extends to the invented species of fish and other creatures, brought to life via stop motion animation by Henry Selick, the director of Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

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The delightfully ridiculous stop - motion animation dinosaurs led by David Allen are hilarious!

The film, which is based on a television series (which was itself a spinoff from the Wallace & Gromit franchise), boasts a tremendously appealing stop - motion animation style that's heightened by an assortment of affable characters, and it's worth noting, too, that the movie's total absence of dialogue in no way hinders one's ability to get caught up in the briskly - paced narrative.

The first thing audiences will notice is that the team of Aardman Features and Dreamworks Animation carry on with their unique visual style of stop - motion animation popularized by Chicken Run and last year's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Animation carry on with their unique visual style of stop - motion animation popularized by Chicken Run and last year's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were animation popularized by Chicken Run and last year's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were - Rabbit.

The story may be thin, but the project, a feat of stop - motion animation, is made with generous care by the same impressive LAIKA studio artists who conjured up the gorgeous «Coraline.»

Stop - motion animation comedy about a resourceful cave man (voiced by Eddie Redmayne) who leads his tribe to defend their land from being taken over by another tribe that wants to set up a precious metal mine.

There's a good chance that I will always be stunned by how incredibly gorgeous stop - motion animation looks from Laika.

The latest animation by Studio Laika, the film blends stop - motion puppetry with computer graphics, and...

Early Man Rated PG for rude humor and some action Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84 % (at time of writing) In Theaters Aardman, the UK stop motion animation studio behind Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit, are now tackling caveman soccer in this new project about a tribe of neanderthals who are forced out of their valley by their technologically superior neighbors, only to challenge them to a football match to win back their land.

The critically acclaimed, adult drama adapts Charlie Kaufman's play by the same name into using stop motion animation and lifelike puppets to create the world of Michael Stone.

Director Woodley uses stop - motion animation inspired by Jan Svankmeyer and the Brothers Quay to mark Chep's evolution from emotional infant to actualized adolescent, the first manifestation a baby on umbilicus, the second a toddler, the third a child, et cetera, into the final iteration of puppet as mature Chep, ready to leave behind the fantasy of his youth for the promise represented by a shy ticket - taker.

A far less conventional and more challenging piece of animation is Anomalisa, a stop - motion romantic dramedy written and co-directed by Charlie Kaufman, the Academy Award - winning scribe of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation., and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Related Reviews: Directed by Coraline's Henry Selick: The Nightmare Before Christmas (Collector's Edition) • James and the Giant Peach (Special Edition) New to DVD: Peanuts 1960's Collection • Push • Inkheart • Knowing • Princess Protection Program The Nightmare Before Christmas collectibles... 3D Movies: Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience • Journey to the Center of the Earth • Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Stop - Motion Animation: Jack Frost (Deluxe Edition) • The Easter Bunny is Comin'to Town (Deluxe Edition) • Noah's Ark (Disney Rarities) Return to Oz • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou • Bolt • WALL • E • Spirited Away Written by Neil Gaiman: Beowulf (Director's Cut) • Stardust The Voice Cast of Coraline: Dakota Fanning: My Neighbor Totoro • Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch Teri Hatcher: Desperate Housewives (Seasons 1 - 4) Jennifer Saunders: Muppet Treasure Island Dawn French: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Keith David: Gargoyles: Season 2, Volume 1 Ian McShane: Kung Fu Panda • Shrek the Third Robert Bailey Jr.: The Happening

If affection for the original film endures, at least among Gen - Xers, it's largely because of Ray Harryhausen's memorable stop - motion animation, which evoked the mythology of the Greeks by way of Harry O. Hoyt's The Lost World.

By supplying him with an original text and a format — stop - motion animation — so twee as to be essentially twee - proof, Fantastic Mr. Fox enabled Anderson to jump the track of his own roller - coaster descent.

The stop - motion animation drama played to a clunky, awkward Q&A when I saw its North American premiere at Telluride, but now that people will have seen the film in droves by Sundance 2016, one can imagine this will be an indeed special event, the first big meeting of the cult following Johnson and Kaufman's film so richly deserves.

In some ways, Anderson pushes it even further by bringing in a little bit of that Fantastic Mr. Fox magic and using a healthy dose of stop - motion miniature animation during most of the establishing exterior shots (and one memorable chase scene).

«The Boxtrolls» is the latest stop - motion animation film distributed by Focus Features and brought to life by Laika, the makers of «Coraline» and «ParaNorman».

His latest effort is a stop - motion animation feature, co-directed by Duke Johnson, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Thewlis, and Kaufman regular Tom Noonan providing the voice talent, about a misanthrope travelling to Cincinnati to give a keynote speech about his bestselling book on customer service.

The stop - motion animation is a refreshing alternative to the familiar visuals presented by other animation studios such as Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks.

Nearly thirty years later, Burton takes a victory lap after delivering to Disney the billion - dollar - grossing Alice in Wonderland, by expanding his short to feature length via the stop - motion animation process he previously worked with on The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride.

This movie has everything: dogs, isles, Yoko Ono, stop - motion animation, Jeff Goldblum voicing a dapper animal, Greta Gerwig fulfilling her destiny by being in a Wes Anderson movie, canine flu, Japan, a rescue plot, COURTNEY B. VANCE, Harvey Keitel, whimsy, and did I mention stop - motion animation dogs?

It's been nine years since Wes Anderson's sublime adaptation of Fantastic Mr. Fox, but sadly his long - awaited return to stop - motion animation has been preceded by months of suggestions it's a product of cultural appropriation if not outright racism.

And the sassy 3D animation adds to this by evoking surreal stop - motion classics like Gumby or The Magic Roundabout while referencing other movies and playing merrily with iconic characters.

There's the heavy sigh of melancholy that defines Anderson's whole oeuvre in this second stop - motion piece of animation, but as it howls at the loss of childhood innocence, it also recreates a little chunk of magic by hand.

When we're not smiling or laughing at the assault of gags, we're astonished by the intricate level of detail to these worlds (Everything here has been «assembled» with the blocky toys) and how the computer animation uncannily simulates the jittery imperfection of stop - motion animation.

by Walter Chaw I love stop - motion animation.

Laika's newest animated feature, Kubo and the Two Strings pushes stop - motion animation limits by taking on its first action...

It's a charming mix of animation and stop - motion, as it follows a young girl who is told the familiar tale by the book's now elderly pilot, who recalls crashing in the desert where he meets the titular alien.

This is the studio, after all, who willingly — or perhaps wilfully — continue to make their films through that most time - sensitive of processes, stop - motion animation, laboriously bringing their creations to life frame - by - frame.

The creatures are digital, but they seem inspired by the monsters created through the technique of stop - motion animation.

The disc includes bonus features with rare stop - motion animation by the great Ray Harryhausen.

They're arranged by topic (characters, costumes, stop - motion animation, production design) and peppered with behind - the - scenes footage instead of staying with just one interview subject for extended periods.

They're all brought to life by a wonderfully designed animation style, representing a sort of stop motion as CG.

Stop - motion animation is a painstakingly long process, one point made perfectly clear by many of the excellent special features on the Criterion Dual Format Blu - ray - DVD combo of Wes Anderson «s 2009 Roald Dahl adaptation Fantastic Mr. Fox.

A step by step resources to create a fun and imaginative stop motion animation for KS 3 - 5.

For those of you unfamiliar with Wallace and Gromit, they are a British - born pair of fictional characters, brought to life by animator Nick Park using Plasticine modeling clay and stop - motion animation.

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Join us for the world premiere of Anna Craycroft's stop - motion animation film, which the artist constructed by shooting new footage weekly in her exhibition «Motion into Being.&motion animation film, which the artist constructed by shooting new footage weekly in her exhibition «Motion into Being.&Motion into Being.»

In Persona Non Granted, Rawls draws parallels between the laborious construction of stop - motion images and the choreographic work of animating bodies by juxtaposing video documentation of the filmmaking process with completed animation sequences of his choreography.

Hartung's use of stop - motion animation, along with incredibly effective lo - fi lighting and staging techniques (as opposed to manipulating the image through the camera or digital editing), creates a differently ordered temporality by manipulating the flow of action and referring to a non-digital filmic past while also using a decidedly video - based look.

Audio clips of American soldiers narrating traumatic stories of their time in Iraq are superimposed over a stop motion animation video of an action figure seeking to liberate Mesopotamian votive figures from a museum display case (the toy soldier itself was chosen due a bizarre story in which it had been used by insurgents in a hoax hostage video).

This stop - motion animation investigates Wave Hill's past by creating a narrative that focuses on the historic houses as private estates (from 1843 to 1960).

Inspired by the artist's hypnotic visuals, families will have the opportunity to collaboratively create spectacular stop - motion animations including imaginary backdrops and invented characters.

Inspired by the lush tangle of plant life that envelops Glyndor House during the warmer months, Joanne Howard has created a stop - motion animation projection that features a network of rapidly growing vines.

The structure of Craycroft's installation borrows from early stop - motion animation techniques like the 20th century setback camera, which gave the illusion of forms moving through real space by filming animation cells on a horizontal glass plane placed in front of a miniature forced perspective set.

CUE Art Foundation is pleased to announce an exhibition by Erin Dunn featuring the premiere of a new stop - motion animation film, Oceanic Dancer.

Megacosm, a solo exhibition by Beau Stanton at Brilliant Champions Gallery is a collection of works are focused on the elements of a three dimensional stop motion animation filmed with Brilliant Champions.

An entrancing new film by Rachel Rose — a combination of conventional animation and stop - motion collage — weaves a loose and dreamy tale about a housetrained rabbit wandering from his suburban tract home into the wild behind its garden, where he bears witness to the life cycle of nature.

«Mind the Time» is a collaborative stop - motion animation create by using paper cutouts filmed on a light - box.