These origami-like puppets can come to life with one touch. They are called karakuri puppets and they have been used in Japan as early as the 17th Century. The technique is called Kirigami which ...

It’s day one of Thanksgiving break and my kids are already tearing up the house. If you walk into my kitchen right now, you’re going to see “Darth Paper” and Yoda puppets all over the place. That’s ...

LAIKA Studios has spent the last decade not only fighting to keep stop motion animation relevant, but also working to take the old school art form to new technical heights — one frame at a time. Once ...

Behind the scenes in Portland on Laika's fourth stop-motion feature. Laika’s fascination with folktales gets more sweeping and exotic with the samurai adventure, “Kubo and the Two Strings,” expanding ...