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2026-08-13 / industry

PFCAT and Frame Fest bring dozens of stop-motion selections to late-August 2026 festival calendar

Two U.S. festivals with substantial stop-motion programming land in the second half of August 2026: the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology (PFCAT, Aug 18-23) lists more than 170 films from 31 countries…
2026-08-11 / making-of

LAIKA's Craft in Motion series shows how animators fake motion blur with hand-built smear frames

LAIKA's official "Craft in Motion" video series published a new entry, "Craft in Motion: Smear… 2026-08-10 / interview

Deborah Cook on engineering Kubo and the Two Strings' costumes down to the millimeter

LAIKA costume designer Deborah Cook (Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings,… 2026-08-11 / making-of

How Aardman faked 300-mph motion blur on The Wrong Trousers' toy-train chase by moving the camera, not the train

Inverse's retrospective on the making of Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993) recounts how… 2026-08-10 / industry

The Inventor heads to US theaters Aug 25; CEE Animation Forum 2026 selects 33 projects for its November Pilsen edition

Blue Fox Entertainment released an official trailer for Jim Capobianco's stop-motion musical The… 2026-08-09 / making-of

Detlev wins Germany's top short-film prize for a forced-perspective, almost-all-in-camera parking lot

Ferdinand Ehrhardt's diploma film Detlev -- a silicone-puppet short about a lonely man's nightly… 2026-08-08 / industry

Frame by Frame at the Center for Puppetry Arts puts stop-motion puppets from Corpse Bride to Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio on public display

Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts opened Frame by Frame: The Art of Stop-Motion Animation on… 2026-08-09 / making-of

Kodansha's LIGHT HOLE prints Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Attack on Titan pages into a papercraft world

LIGHT HOLE, Kodansha's third global branded film, was directed by Toru Katori -- an independent… 2026-08-08 / industry

Aardman's 50th-anniversary Annecy slate: Let's Go Timmy!, Danger Delilah, and the Pokemon collaboration

Marking its 50th anniversary, Aardman used Annecy 2026 to unveil a full slate: 'Let's Go Timmy!' (a… 2026-08-07 / making-of

See Creature's CNESST spot animates a puppet that unravels -- built entirely from crocheted wool

Montreal's See Creature Animation built "Hanging by a Thread," a workplace-psychological-health… 2026-08-03 / industry

PFCAT 2026 lineup spotlights 30+ stop-motion films in Portland

The Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology (PFCAT), Aug 18-23, 2026 at OMSI, announced… 2026-08-06 / making-of

Inside The Tiny Chef Show's art department: scheduling handmade sets for weekly delivery

Autodesk's account of ShadowMachine's art department on The Tiny Chef Show lays out how a weekly…

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