Stop Motion Magazine

Watch our Jiří Trnka documentary, exploring his theatre roots, illustration, puppet performances, and the artistic freedom at the heart of The Hand.

A miniature Mini escapes the sketchbook in Lucas Drobnitzky’s Out for a Ride, blending drawn roads, object animation, and playful camera work.

Watch our Ray Harryhausen documentary: sixteen principal features, a lifetime of creature performances, and an influence that reaches across generations.

Victor Haegelin transforms newspaper into an expressive dancer, choreographing a stop-motion performance to Vivaldi. Watch the film and making-of.

More than 800 paper faces and photographed pizza ingredients fuel Guy Larsen’s handmade visualizer for Adam Buxton’s Pizza Time.

Andrea Love turns felt into a working miniature kitchen, using tactile transformations and precise timing in her Cooking with Wool film.

Watch our short Lotte Reiniger documentary, exploring the silhouette craft behind The Adventures of Prince Achmed and Papageno.

A Jarvis Cocker puppet, a handmade seaside setting, and delicate lighting bring quiet character to Joseph Wallace’s film for BBC’s The Sleeping Forecast.

Inside the practical rainbows, feathered puppet and gooey transformation of Lindsay Berkebile’s Skullicorn bumper for Adult Swim.

Toru Katori and Takuro Oishi transform Kodansha’s printed stories into a dimensional paper adventure in LIGHT HOLE.

Niki Lindroth von Bahr turns an airport into a stop-motion portrait of human anxiety in The End. Watch the trailer and explore behind-the-scenes photographs.

A short documentary explores how Ladislas Starevich gave miniature figures personality, from his insect performers to the family workshop behind The Tale of the Fox.