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Feast your eyes on this stop-motion music video by animator Kevin Parry. The short took about six months to film, and required hundreds of paper cutouts, but we think you'll agree that Parry did a pretty great job serving up a splendid depiction of Earth's past, present and (possible) future. More »
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This is Jeff Gurwood's Indymation, a.k.a. the entire temple sequence to Raiders of the Lost Ark done up entirely with action figures and art supplies. If I were animating the film's final scenes, I would make Gumby jump out of the Ark of the Convenant. That guy absolutely terrifies me. Also, I wonder if Indy's friend is a Doctor Octopus action figure. More »
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The very sexy Number Six of BSG fame is back to her old ways, torturing young men for the good of humanity (or perhaps robomanity). Watch the first ever trailer for Bloodwork now. Plus, more Nazi zombies! More »
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We're exceptionally giddy over the release of the trailer for ParaNorman. It's from the makers of Coraline, which elevated the children's genre with stunning art and solid, real scares. ParaNorman is all about a special boy with the ability to talk to the dead. Check out the first ever trailer, and get into the slightly slanted world that directors Sam Fell and Chris Butler created. More »
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‪ A tiny taste of Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In will make your skin crawl, which is perfect as it's centered around mad scientist Antonio Banderas and his obsession with creating an indestructible epidermis, no matter what pain he inflicts on his test subject. More »
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Brace yourself! Tonight man's best friend takes on man's favorite apocalyptic monster, zombies! More »
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From the brilliant mind behind Iron Baby and the Puppy AT-AT comes the latest in awesome stop-motion shorts, Black Widow Gone Wild. Plus a gorgeous Mexican zombie movie and another short worth your immediate attention! More »
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Terry Gilliam is ready to take a steam-powered journey into the the alternate world of 1884, with a steampunky story written (and soon to be directed) by Gilliam's protégé Tim Ollive. Watch these amazing animation/puppet tests by Ollive himself. More »
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Wow — last night Robot Chicken aired its third Star Wars special, and it was almost better than the first. It was truly spectacular, especially when Boba Fett called Luke Skywalker Jodi Foster. Here our our three favorite moments. More »
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Corpse Bride co-director Mike Johnson wants to be king of the creepy Wizard of Oz movie spin-offs with his stop-motion war movie. His next project Oz Wars, sounds freakier than the wheelers. More »
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Good news, fans of graphic claymation violence! The short "Chainsaw Maid" finally has a sequel, and this one is ten times bloodier than the original. Let the undead clay hordes rise again! Clay cleavage and clay zombies — slightly NSFW. More »
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On this week's Cult Movie Worship, watch the adorable stop-motion sex habits of blue blobs in Tibo Charroppin's short film Blue - An Erotic Life. Who knew Play-Doh was so kinky? Read on for more Cultiness... More »
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There are people on a secret city on the moon, and they are from the future. Find out what the Church of Lunology doesn't want you to know. Plus, the video game Dead Rising gets a live action flick. More »
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Neo and Agent Smith dodge bullets inside the Matrix. But this version doesn't star Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving; it stars superpowered Lego men in this frame-for-frame, stop-motion recreation of one of The Matrix's most famous scenes. More »
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Tom Root, Mathew Senreich and Seth Green are out to corrupt your Voltron memories with Titan Maximum, their new series about a squad of pilots who must battle a former member of their giant robot team — with sex jokes. More »
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Hopefully by now, you've checked out the gorgeous stop-motion film Coraline. And now, a new collection of Coraline concept art sheds some light on how these characters came into 3D life. More »
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It's been way too long since we've seen an elegantly frightening story that makes us widen our eyes with both horror and wonder. But the newly released Coraline is bringing childlike fear back. More »
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Director Henry Selick is a huge reason why Neil Gaiman's Coraline is so gorgeously spooky. While promoting Coraline, he gave us some details about his next project, a zombie stop motion feature called Paranorman. More »
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Magic man Neil Gaiman takes time to reassure you that buttons aren't scary — except when people take needles and sew them into your eyes, in the new Coraline trailer. New phobia, here I come. More »
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Take a peek inside Coraline's stop motion world, comprised of dancing mice, flowers with child-like voices, and button eyes. Three new trailers give you a way better look at the many wonders in Coraline. More »
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Neil Gaiman's movie adaptation of novel Coraline, about a young girl who finds a parallel universe inside her own home, has an amazing behind-the-scenes story. In these clips, you'll discover how the crafty designers used stop motion to create a beautiful orchard filled with cherry blossoms made of popcorn. You'll also find out how 5 miles of thread created one 5-inch-tall character. Director Henry Selick embroidered his button-eyed parallel world with insane detail. He even hired an artist to hand knit the characters' itty bitty sweaters. Coraline will be released on theaters on February 6. More »
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Neil Gaiman’s had his hand in a lot of Hollywood pots of late. Last year, he co-wrote the screenplay for Beowulf and saw his book Stardust make it to the big screen. But perhaps his most promising film project to date is dark fairytale Coraline, currently getting the stop-motion treatment courtesy of Henry Selick, who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas. Five new featurettes give us a glimpse of how Selick is bringing Gaiman’s vision to three-dimensional life. More »
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You can never get enough dinosaurs in space, and that's why indie filmmaker Larry Arpin spent the last several years filming his dinotastic space opera Galactic Raiders in the deepest California desert. The whole flick is done old-school, from the Ray Harryhausen-style, stop-motion dinos, to the retro Mitchell camera he filmed with. And the plot is pure pulp. Rymir zooms to a distant planet (full of dinos, whom he fights in this clip) to rescue his girlfriend from the evil Acastus. More »
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This sequence from 1995's Death Machine is awe-inspiring, because the killer robot is CGI but manages to look like stop-motion with its jerky movements. And it's super cute! It's like a robo-Barney. And it's damaged by an explosion that's perfectly timed to coincide with a nice smiley face, as the super-secret evil corporate vault door opens. I've seen Death Machine three times, and I still couldn't tell you the plot. There's an evil corporation in the far future of 2003, and Brad Dourif plays himself as a psycho robot maker. And there are cyber terrorists, and flashy lights. Mostly, though, it's about the cute robosaurus. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=354417&view=rss&microfeed=true There's a sneak peek of the stop-motion animated movie of Neil Gaiman's cute-goth comic Coraline out today, and it's delightfully freaky. Title character Coraline explores her new home and finds a portal that leads into another dimension, with bizarro versions of her mom and dad inside. Of course, she has to battle the baddies in order to get things back to normal. More »
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