A handful of filmmakers began experimenting with animation in pre-Soviet Russia. Ballet dancer Aleksander Shiryayev filmed a series of stop-motion puppet films between 1906 and 1909, and Ladislas ...

Stop-motion animation is seemingly as popular as ever. Four feature productions in the last two years have earned Oscar nods – Kubo and the Two Strings, Anomalisa, My Life as a Zucchini, and ...

In the USSR, animation was a huge cultural phenomenon. Besides being entertainment, Soviet animations also commented on society’s hopes and fears. RBTH has compiled a selection of the most ...

Estonian stop-motion animation still thrives, wins at Cannes, hits Academy shortlists, has busy studios such as Rebel Frame and Nukufilm.

It shows “fascism’s inglorious end” at the hands of the Soviet Union. After the war, Russian animation (like all Soviet industries) suffered severe funding shortages.

Fashions come and go, but Estonia is still betting on puppet and stop-motion animation. “It may not be mainstream anymore, but Estonian stop-motion is still thriving, with many directors ...

She Animates: Soviet Female Subjectivity in Russian Animation by Michele Leigh and Lora Mjolsness. Academic Studies Press. In this enlightening, rapid-fire analysis of 20th-century Russian and ...

The work uses stop-motion to depict Laika, a Soviet pup known to be the first animal sent into outer space. The movie, which will feature characters composed of different media, ...

Allen had originally envisioned pushing the boundaries of what could be accomplished with stop-motion animation, Endicott said. In the decades since, however, computer-generated imagery had become ...