Hornet mixed-media director and stop-motion specialist Peter Sluszka is tapped to direct a music video for “Lilies,” the fourth single from Bat for Lashes from the acclaimed album, “The Haunted Man.”

Day 3 continues with a tour of cg and stop-motion wizards Tippett Studio.

Flickerpix wins the Irish Film and Television Academy award for Best Animation for its short film, “Macropolis.”

The director, fresh from his Annie Award win for Best Student Film, discusses his Oscar-nominated stop-motion gem.

Focus Features releases an interactive booklet providing a closer look at Laika’s “ParaNorman.”

Director Timothy Reckart launches his own production company, Reckart Productions, with two stop-motion feature projects in development: “Super Special Ed” and “I Lost My Mind.”

Focus Features and Laika reunite for October 2014’s “The Boxtrolls,” based on Alan Snow’s bestseller “Here Be Monsters,” and starring the voices of Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette, Elle Fanning, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Jared Harris, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade and Tracy Morgan.

K5 International will begin pre-selling the animation project, which began life at Disney, to buyers at the European Film Market.

I've launched a Kickstarter campaign for my latest project, a stop-motion sci-fi action adventure and I need your help!

The innovative director discusses his unique brand of object-based stop-motion filmmaking.