Adult Swim has created a series of claymation shorts titled Rick and Morty: The Non-Canonical Adventures that put the science duo in famous scenes of movies like Ex Machina, The Thing, The Fly, Honey I Shrunk the Kids,and Halloween.

HelloDenizen shared this video of a Twinkie, the Jack Russell who holds the USA record for balloon bursting, chasing balloons in a real-life Pac-Man course.

Another live-action adaptation of a childhood favorite is headed your way and this time, Disney is looking to Sam Mendes for some assistance.

With LAIKA'S Kubo and the Two Strings finally being released this weekend, we've got our final bit of Kubo coverage for you after our review and our interview with director, Travis Knight. I was very excited to be able to sit down with the young man responsible for not only bringing the character of Kubo to life, but for doing so much with very little dialogue as Rickon Stark on Game of Thrones. No, I didn't ask him why he didn't zig-zag.

Kubo and the Two Strings is LAIKA's fourth animated film. It's a huge milestone for the company, as Kubo represents ot only techniques and storytelling that LAIKA has never tried before, but also things that have never before been tried in stop-motion animation. At the center of it all is Travis Knight, who is not only the President and CEO of LAIKA, but is also making his directing debut with Kubo.

Some of us have yet to get our hands on the #Hamiltome (otherwise known as Hamilton: The Revolution, which delves into the making of the famous musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda and the history that was adapted to create the smash Broadway hit). Law & Order:SVU's Mariska Hargitay, a self-professed Hamilfan, was approached by Miranda himself to do some of the reading on the audiobook, and you can listen to an excerpt here.

This stop-motion animation spinning cake recreates the entire first level of Super Mario Bros–and the best part is, it’s edible. (via Gizmodo) This girl accidentally dyed herself pink by using what she thought was a Lush bath bomb. (Turns out it was an oil-based product that had to be diluted in water first.) Oops? She […]

On Thursday, the Oscar nominations were released, with the Charlie Kaufman-Duke Johnson directed drama Anomalisa receiving one of the Best Animated Feature Film nominations. The critically acclaimed, adult drama adapts Charlie Kaufman’s play by the same name into using stop motion animation and lifelike puppets to create the world of Michael Stone.

Oscar-winning animator Phil Tippett is the man behind many iconic monsters, beginning with the masks in the Star Wars Cantina scene, to designing various creatures (including Tauntauns, Rancor whom he calls "a cross between a bear and a potato," and Jabba the Hutt) to Jurassic Park, and his new project "Mad God."

Vincent Peone wrote and directed The Sea is Blue--a very different track from his usual comedy work--when his sister was in a coma 10 years ago.

LAIKA released a retrospective video that captures the overlapping themes between the studio's journey and the stories they tell. "Conventional wisdom says this wouldn't and shouldn't work," says Travis Knight, "but here we are."

This featurette, titled "Crafting Anomalisa" takes us through the 1000+ faces, costumes, and props that were made for the 118,089 frames of film.

OMG, I kinda want this version of an Attack on Titan movie!

At San Diego Comic-Con, we caught up with LAIKA CEO Travis Knight, as well as directors Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable, and stars Elle Fanning, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, and Sir Ben Kingsley to talk about the surprising and inventive process behind The Boxtrolls and LAIKA's LGBTQ representation.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright has a lot to say about the wonders of animation, especially when it comes to his latest project, LAIKA’s The Boxtrolls. Best known for playing Bran Stark on HBO’s megahit Game of Thrones, the young actor is now lending his vocal talents to the characters Eggs, a boy raised by the benign trash-collecting troll clan that live under the fictional Victorian town of Cheesebridge. We spoke to him about all that and more at SDCC!

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A lot of people are worried that CGI will replace stop motion animation because it's less time-consuming and ultimately less expensive. If this little guy is any indication, however, then stop motion will never go away, because there will always be someone willing to put in a ridiculous amount of effort to make it happen.