Stop Motion Magazine

JOKO Wins at the 2025 Émile Awards – Plucińska’s Grotesque Clay Epic Earns Major European Recognition Clay animation visionary Izabela Plucińska returns with one of her most...

Bleeding Bonds: A Tale of Two Sisters — The Visceral Horror of Écorchée (Skinned) by Joachim Hérissé Few stop-motion films in recent years have pushed the expressive...

A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m a Lesbian — A Bold, Intimate Stop-Motion Debut from Emerging Filmmakers A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m...

Ballad of a Bleeding Heart — A Charming Blend of Vulnerability, Craft, and Play There’s a particular kind of magic that happens when an animator steps into...

ÅTERSÅDD by Emanu Garnheim Emanu Garnheim’s ÅTERSÅDD has already begun carving out an impressive presence on the international festival circuit — premiering at Monsters of Film in...

The Forbidden Zone: Zach Tolchinsky’s Haunting Stop-Motion Journey Into the Unknown Zach Tolchinsky’s The Forbidden Zone is a striking stop-motion short that blends handcrafted world-building with an...

MIRA – Eva Louise Hall’s Dark, Textural Dive into Creative Exploitation 2023 | Stop-Motion Short Film | 11 min 29 sec In the haunting stop-motion short MIRA,...

In the cage — A Haunting 2018 Stop-Motion Short by Eguchi Shiho & Ishii Eita Japanese stop-motion continues to grow in bold and distinctive directions, thanks in...

Archie – A Tender Stop Motion Journey Through Grief and Renewal The short film Archie, directed by Ainslie Henderson and created by Domenica More Gordon, is a...

Harry Cloud’s Lost Acres: A Surreal Stop-Motion Odyssey by Tawd B. Dorenfeld “Very artsy, very edgy, very weird…” — that’s precisely the vibe this film embraces, and...

Behind the Scenes of “Playing God” — A 7-Year Stop-Motion Odyssey In the world of independent stop-motion animation, few projects capture the imagination quite like Playing God...

  Black Eyed Dog — A Haunting Stop-Motion Journey into Memory and Obsession Alone in a small house at the edge of the woods, a man and...