'Under a Shooting Contrail' by Rika Nakayamahttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/under-a-shooting-contrail-rika-nakayama

09 August 2024 A stop-motion puppet dares to go outside. Watch the animation film 'Under A Shooting Contrail' by Rika Nakayama. It's always nice to be outside. Emerging animation director and artist Rika Nakayama made a stop-motion puppet film during her CalArts...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Shorts

StopMoLab Training Programme: Interview with Paulina Zacharekhttps://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/stop-mo-lab-interview-paulina-zacharek

22 June 2022 Paulina Zacharek talks to Kropka about the new stop-motion training programme, StopMoLab. In the independent animation industry, it seems like we're always one step behind what's being done in the mainstream. Not only in terms of production and...

• Type: Article
• Author: Kropka
• Category: Interviews

MOMAKIN: Stop-motion Animation Gets A Comebackhttps://www.zippyframes.com/news/momakin-stop-motion-animation-gets-a-comeback

05 February 2020 MOMAKIN company which organizes the Animarkt Stop-Motion Forum shares its thought on the resurgence of stop-motion animation. MOMAKIN experts, the Polish company which supports production and distribution of international film projects (and organizes...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: News

Meet Mousse & Bichon by Vivement Lundi!https://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/mousse-bichon-vivement-lundi-interview

02 October 2019 Zippy Frames caught up with the creators of the promising stop-motion series in development by Vivement Lunid!, Mousse & Bichon, during CARTOON Forum 2019. It was one of the most-attended CARTOON FORUM pitches, and it is bound to be in stop-motion. The...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Interviews

Do we need stop-motion animation? A Guardian article argues otherwisehttps://www.zippyframes.com/news/do-we-need-stop-motion-animation-a-guardian-article-argues-otherwise

16 October 2012 In a recent Guardian article, David Cox suggests that the current stop-motion animation production (culminating so far in Tim Burton's Frankenweenie) should not be overestimated. In an article written as if to cause the furore of stop-motion animators...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: News

The Captain and the Ship: Director and Producer in Stop Motion Animationhttps://www.zippyframes.com/news/production/director-producer-stop-motion-animarkt

17 December 2021 A much rewarding discussion on the relationship between director and producer in stop-motion animation during the 6th Animarkt Stop Motion Forum 2021. The perennial question: how a successful collaboration between director and producer can be achieved...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Production

Battery Daddy by Seung-bae Jeon (Contemporary Korean Animation Series)https://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/battery-daddy-seungbae-jeon

13 September 2021 Vassilis Kroustallis talks to Korean animation director Seung-bae Jeon about his stop-motion animation short Battery Daddy. It quickly came out as childrens' favourite film, with festival appearances at Fantoche, Giffoni Film Festival, Stop Motion...

• Type: Article
• Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
• Category: Interviews

Thiago Calçado: The Pinocchio Stop-Motion Animatorhttps://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/thiago-calcado-interview

16 February 2022 Kropka talks to stop-motion animator Thiago Calçado, now working at the Pinocchio stop-motion project by Guillermo del Toro. Thiago Calçado was born and raised under the endless summer in Brazil, he has been involved in some of the most creative and...

• Type: Article
• Author: Kropka
• Category: Interviews

Imbued Life by Ivana Bošnjak and Thomas Johnson (Online Premiere)https://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/imbued-life-ivana-bosnjak-thomas-johnson

10 April 2023 Joseph Norman talks to Ivana Bošnjak and Thomas Johnson about their stop-motion animation film 'Imbued Life' which premieres online. Thomas Johnson and Ivana Bosnjak have established a reputation as highly technically skillful stop-motion animators....

• Type: Article
• Author: Joseph Norman
• Category: Shorts

'Modern Stop-Motion Fables': Interview with Niki Lindroth von Bahrhttps://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/niki-lindroth-von-bahr-interview

19 November 2024 Acclaimed stop-motion animation director Niki Lindroth von Bahr talks to Zippy Frames. Stop-motion animator, writer, and sculptor Niki Lindroth von Bahr recently participated as a jury member at the 2024 Etiuda & Anima Festival (21-26 November,...

• Type: Article
• Author: Heather Bradshaw
• Category: Interviews

'Hello Summer', '3 Cups of Coffee' in the Animarkt Stop Motion Forum 2021 Winners: Reporthttps://www.zippyframes.com/news/production/animarkt-pitching-projects-2021-report

09 December 2021 6th Animarkt Stop Motion Forum (7-12 December 2021, Lodz and online), a 5-day event that captured the best in upcoming stop-motion animation, rounded by insightful discussions and masterclasses on all aspects of stop-motion filmmaking, from production...

• Type: Article
• Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
• Category: Production

"Shaping the Film Through Mutual Trust": Interview with BAFTA-Awarded Antonin Niclass (Swiss Focus @ ITFS 2025)https://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/bafta-awarded-antonin-niclass-swiss-focus-itfs-2025

12 April 2025 artist and director Antonin Niclass is one of the future indie talents to watch. He came to the forefront with the 2021 stop-motion 'Do Not Feed the Pigeons', a NFTS film and cardboard story in a coach full of strangers. The film granted him a number of...

• Type: Article
• Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
• Category: Interviews

Eliane Gordeeff Prepares Book On Stop-Motion and Animation Narrativehttps://www.zippyframes.com/news/academic/eliane-gordeeff-prepares-book-on-stop-motion-and-animation-narrative

20 August 2018 Aesthetic Interferences: The Stop-Motion Technique in the Animation Narrative book project has opened for Indiegogo crowdfunding support. Once upon a time in 2001, a girl was watching some animated films in the cinema; she suddenly found herself...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Academic

‘We Searched for a Kind of Harmony’: Interview with Leon Vidmar and Jean-Claude Rozec (‘Tales from the Magic Garden’)https://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/we-searched-for-a-kind-of-harmony-tales-from-the-magic-garden-interview

25 February 2025 At the 75th Berlinale, Zippy Frames spoke with two directors of 'Tales from the Magic Garden', a new stop-motion animation feature film perfect for families. Puppet-based stop-motion feature animation 'Tales from the Magic Garden’ (by the Czech...

• Type: Article
• Author: Olivia Popp
• Category: Interviews

Animarkt , Lodz, 2-6/10/17: Pitching Stop-Motion Projectshttps://www.zippyframes.com/news/pitching/animarkt-lodz-2-61017-pitching-stop-motion-projects

28 June 2017 Call for entries for stop-motion projects to be pitched during the second edition of ANIMARKT, Poland. Stop-motion shorts and TV specials may be submitted for the first edition of ANIMARKT pitching that will take place in Lodz (Poland) in 2-6 October...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Pitching