Researchers are devising technologies that help analyze and enhance human movement and performance.

When computer-aided engineering (CAE) methods became available for design work in the 1980s, finite element analysis (FEA) was the first to be widely adopted. Over the years, it's helped design ...

Stop motion animation (also called stop frame animation) is a cinematic and creative technique that breathes life into physical objects through sequential photography. Objects are manipulated in tiny ...

A stop-motion animator can spend a week manipulating a small puppet around, frame by frame, for a total of just three seconds of footage. Why would anyone want to do that? The truth is, fewer and ...

This week, the pioneering studio Laika returns with “Missing Link,” the stop-motion animated family film starring Hugh Jackman and Zach Galifianakis. With “Missing Link” landing in theaters on Friday, ...

I like things to be clear, so just to be sure we’re all talking about the same thing, I decided to work out a bullet-proof definition of the art of cinema animation; something that covers all forms ...

The 2025 Academy Awards shaped up to be a big one for stop-motion animation. Australian director Adam Eliott’s Memoir of a Snail (2024) raked in a nomination for Best Animated Feature Film, alongside ...