Giving animation giants Pixar and Disney another run for their box office money, the Oregon-based LAIKA animation studio has a new contender in “The Boxtrolls.” Two previous LAIKA films, 2012’s ...

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 ...

There’s more to Laika’s latest animated movie The Boxtrolls than meets the eye, not least in the way this ostensibly stop-motion creation seamlessly utilises modern animation techniques and even 3D ...

Laika animation studio has been crushing the stop-motion game since their 2009 Academy Award-nominated Coraline. They followed up with the equally impressive Paranorman, and now their latest work of ...

Though it has some story issues, Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi's The Boxtrolls is a technical marvel, a traditional stop-motion animation film that uses modern technology to augment the original ...

A spooky surrealism has been the specialty of the Oregon-based animation studio Laika, the Pacific Northwest purveyors of 3-D stop-motion. The self-stylized descendants of the Brothers Grimm and Neil ...

Laika Studios' third stop-motion animated feature stars Ben Kingsley and Elle Fanning By Mia Galuppo Film Writer “It is a long, winding road to do any one of these things,” said Knight. “The pace of ...

The stop-motion animated "Boxtrolls" (which earned an Oscar nomination last week) and the crime drama "The Drop" (which didn't but deserved to) both land on DVD today. They top this week's listing of ...

Remember stop-motion, that venerable technique of animated films ranging from old-time children’s classics by Rankin/Bass to sword-and-sandals epics by Ray Harryhausen? Given the success of Pixar’s ...

A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator. Based on the children's novel 'Here Be Monsters' by Alan Snow. The ...

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“Big Hero 6,” “The Boxtrolls,” “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” and the TV series “Game of Thrones” lead the VES Awards with five nominations apiece. For the first time in its history, Laika will ...