Stop motion animation (also called stop frame animation) is a cinematic and creative technique that breathes life into physical objects through sequential photography. Objects are manipulated in tiny ...

Technology specialist Doug Van Zee, right, instructs Riverside Middle School eighth-graders as they make a clay animation movie. From left are Ashley Brucker, Princess Ordway and Ephraim Jaworski.

From the hypnotic surrealism of The Vandal to the monochrome precision of Perfect, filmmaker Eddie Alcazar has never shied away from blending form and function. But his latest animated short, Bullet ...