When this season’s Annie Award nominations for animation were announced, it was The Boxtrolls — the latest stop-motion animated feature from Portland, Ore.-based studio Laika and distributor ...

One of the great strengths of animation is the ability to make the scary and unbelievable completely credible. The medium is so inherently pliable that if the right effort and right skill is applied, ...

That plot is set in motion by a human boy (voice of Isaac Hempstead Wright) who lives with, and considers himself one of, the Boxtrolls. On one of his nightly trash-collecting outings, Eggs, as ...

While the bulk of modern cinematic animation lives inside computers, with Pixar-style CG characters dominating the box-office, Laika has carved out its own creative space, with advanced stop ...

There's a strange, special kind of magic at work in "The Boxtrolls." The latest gleefully Gothic offering from the stop-motion wizards at Laika Entertainment could have easily been sunk by ...

At this year's Comic-Con, the makers of the new stop-motion animated movie, The Boxtrolls, were unusually honest about the stress of making their film.Normally, at a panel in front of 6,000 people ...

But animation—especially stop-motion—is really a solitary existence: Ultimately, when a shot is set up, the animator is alone, bringing this puppet to life all on their own for days, sometimes ...

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 ...

The Boxtrolls is the latest movie from stop motion animation studio Laika, previously responsible for the award-winning Coraline and ParaNorman.Adapted from the novel Here Be Monsters! by Alan ...

The Boxtrolls, reviewed: Stop-motion film is an unparalleled delight — even with all the cheese. Do stay for the closing credits, ...

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 ...