The anarchic animated horror film Mad God, out Thursday on Shudder, has been in the works for more than 30 years. Yes, you read that right. According to the Kickstarter campaign that brought the ...

After an incredibly prolific career in the 1970s and ’80s, stop-motion effects maestro Phil Tippett nearly met his end when the art form he had dedicated his life to, thanks to Jurassic Park blowing ...

Stop motion animation makes gods of humans. For what is divinity, except breathing life into the inanimate? The art has its pantheon. Willis O'Brien, the man who made King Kong roar; Karel Zeman, who ...

Reid Goldberg is a features writer for Collider. Having grown up in the Midwest, he attended the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. While he's begrudingly accepted that a FIlm Studies degree wasn't ...

Tippett is perhaps best known for his work on Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, which combined Tippet’s stop-motion techniques with CGI in order to dinosaurs to life (and gave birth to the “Dinosaur ...

The art of stop-motion animation has largely fallen by the wayside. Unless it’s Laika or Aardman, 3D CGI has become and remains the dominant force in both animated film and special effects. The onset ...