Closing in on the holiday season, I find myself again realizing how hard it is to find a good Hanukkah (or Chanukah) movie. Growing up, teachers would show us the puppet musical “Chanukah at Bubbe’s” ...

At a press event for Netflix’s upcoming movie Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio in London this week, I got to hold Pinocchio’s hand. In fact, I held all of him. While Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of ...

The prospect of creating a stop motion film is daunting, to say the least. The process of taking a photo, altering a scene slightly, then taking another photo, over ...

The master of stop-motion animation earned his Academy Award for ‘The Sand Castle’ in 1977. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief Co Hoedeman, the Canadian animator and director best known for winning ...

PARIS: The French production outfit Moving Puppet is developing two new projects, an adaptation of the stop-motion short Chapi Chapo and the original live-action/2D hybrid Poilyphonies. Moving Puppet ...

The musical puppet version of “The Three Little Pigs” at Poway Library entertained young and old alike with comical songs sung by stuffed pigs and a wolf. Parents were familiar with the story being ...

Adobe has just announced a major update to its Character Animator desktop app, which lets designers combine layers from Photoshop and Illustrator to create animated puppets. Features such as ...

Co Hoedeman, the Canadian animator and director best known for winning an Oscar for best animated short in 1977, has died. He was 84. Hoedeman died Monday in Montreal, the National Film Board of ...