After a long six-month uphill battle to bring together the interviews and articles for Issue #39, we finally have enough material to move forward. We’re excited to share the cover of the upcoming issue, featuring Max Winston, director of Daffy in Wackyland. Issue 39 Coming Soon!

Wad Is, Is Nu is a stop-motion short from Dutch studio 5 A.M. that explores a fragile ecosystem through a simple but effective metaphor. Handmade over six months and created for Ultrakort 2025. Read more: stopmotionmagazine.com/wad-i…

El Cuerpo de Cristo looks like embroidered stop motion — but it’s a hybrid of real textile backgrounds and digital animation. Not stop motion, but highly relevant for artists exploring handmade and mixed-media animation techniques. stopmotionmagazine.com/el-cu… #ElCuerpoDeCristo

ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT is a live-action documentary that uses stop-motion animation as an emotional storytelling tool rather than a visual gimmick. A Sundance award-winner that shows how animation can meaningfully exist inside nonfiction film. Read more: stopmotionmagazine.com/stop-…

BBC Creative’s Trails Will Blaze proves stop motion can still surprise. The Winter Olympics 2026 campaign used around 700 3D-printed puppets and 14 practical fire techniques, all animated frame by frame in-camera. stopmotionmagazine.com/bbc-t…

Surreal, handcrafted stop-motion at its best. Impossible Maladies by Alice & Stefano Tambellini draws inspiration from historical medical imagery to tell a darkly playful animated short that’s screened internationally. Read more: stopmotionmagazine.com/impos…

Denny’s revives the classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer characters in a new stop-motion holiday commercial produced by Bent Image Lab. Read more: stopmotionmagazine.com/denny… #StopMotion #Rudolph #AnimationAdvertising

Oscar-nominated and winner of Best Short Film at Sundance, Mark Osborne’s MORE remains one of the most influential stop-motion shorts ever made. Read our in-depth look at the film and its lasting impact: stopmotionmagazine.com/mark-…

Disney Jr’s Mickey & Minnie Holiday Songs: Christmas Shorts were produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, bringing stop motion to one of Disney’s most iconic duos A small but meaningful win for handcrafted animation in kids programming. stopmotionmagazine.com/micke… #StopMotion

Buffalo Wild Wings taps into stop-motion-inspired animation with Hank the Halls, a holiday campaign produced by Anomaly and animated by HouseSpecial. stopmotionmagazine.com/buffa… #StopMotion #Animation #CommercialAnimation #HolidayAdvertising

Minimal dialogue. Maximum unease. Toe by Neal O’Bryan & Chad Thurman turns a classic folklore scare into a chilling stop-motion horror short. 👉 stopmotionmagazine.com/toe-b… #StopMotion #HorrorShort #ALTER #IndieFilm

Tiny Chef brings stop motion charm to the California Academy of Sciences with a planetarium film, immersive exhibits, and museum-wide activations focused on sustainability 🌱👨‍🍳 stopmotionmagazine.com/tiny-… #TinyChef #StopMotion #Animation #TinyChefBigImpact #ClimateAction

Eric Bernhagen’s My Greedy Friend is a surreal, unsettling short that uses stop motion effects as emotional texture rather than spectacle. A look at the film and Bernhagen’s growing body of outsider, internet-era surreal filmmaking: stopmotionmagazine.com/eric-… #StopMotion

Finn Wolfhard, best known as Mike Wheeler on Stranger Things, directed the official music video for George Harrison’s “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth).” Read more: stopmotionmagazine.com/finn-… #FinnWolfhard #GeorgeHarrison #GiveMeLove #MusicVideo #StrangerThings

Aardman Academy has launched Scriptwriting Professional — a 5-week intensive course for animation storytellers led by Daniel Ojari & Sam Morrison. Learn more and apply: stopmotionmagazine.com/aardm… #Animation #Scriptwriting

Brontë — a stop-motion short by young animator Eliana Whitcomb — made entirely by hand and won Best Stop Motion (Ages 15–18) at the Young Animator Awards 2025. A beautiful story of imagination and loss. Read & watch: stopmotionmagazine.com/bront… #StopMotion #Animation

Diptera is a haunting stop motion short that turns guilt into something physical and inescapable. Creepy, restrained, and deeply atmospheric, this award-winning student film lingers long after it ends. Read more: stopmotionmagazine.com/dipte… #Diptera #StopMotion #StopMotionHorror

Framed — a noir-infused stop motion short by Marco Jemolo — uses clay animation to ask big questions about identity, agency, and the systems that shape us. Discover the art and meaning behind the film in our latest piece. stopmotionmagazine.com/frame…

La vieja y el cuervo — A stop motion short by Lucía Bayardo that blends folklore, atmosphere, and handcrafted visuals. Read our full feature on why this eerie animation is turning heads: stopmotionmagazine.com/la-vi… #StopMotion #Animation

赤い蝋燭と人魚 (The Red Candles and the Mermaid) is a haunting Japanese stop-motion short that reimagines a classic fairy tale through handcrafted puppets and atmospheric storytelling. Read more on Stop Motion Magazine: stopmotionmagazine.com/akai-… #stopmotion #japaneseanimation