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 ...

Except nothing about this process looks quite real because it’s filmed in stop-motion animation — that slightly hiccupy form of animation that uses tangible props and puppets.