StopMotionAnimation

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Movies: Director Bryan Signer has Tweeted a first look at Beast as portrayed by actor Nicholas Hoult in the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past. Awesome: Counter656 is back with another insanely rad Dragon Ball Z stop motion animation using S...

Animation: Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch has announced that the Disney Chanel has renewed the show for a second season. Anime: Black Widow, Punisher, War Machine and Hawkeye join Tony Stark in blasting things and looking pensive in the latest Iron Man: Rise of Technovore anime feature trailer...

Movies: Comic book fans should be able to recognize some prominent eye, web and chest emblem changes to Spidey's suit in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 so far. Movies: New Iron Man 3 character images see Pepper Potts and Tony Stark clutching some worse-for-the-wear helmets...

DC: It's unclear just what DC's new Channel 52 will encompass, but it promises "All the news, some of the facts." Gaming: DC Universe Online's Home Turf DLC is now live, giving players access to inner sanctums, sidekicks and more. Video: Taiwanese stop motion animator counter656 follows action figure versions of Piccolo and Trunks versus as they square off against a bunch of mobile s

Animation: If you didn't catch it on Reddit awhile back, there's never a bad time to scope out this awesome King of the Hill animator's guide of "Do's and Dont's." Toys: S.H. Figuarts Iron Man Mark VI and War Machine pack a lot of firepower appeal, even if Iron Man 3 toys are already arriving in stores...

I might be in the minority on this one, but the trailer for the upcoming Man of Steel movie left me a little cold. Don't get me wrong, I like washed-out colors, melodramatic voiceovers and hand-holding as much as the next guy, but the whole thing just seemed a little too dour, and left me thinking that it'd be a lot better if it had been shot using the world's most famous building toys... Read Mo

Like a lot of people my age, I spent a pretty significant portion of the '90s watching the X-Men cartoon. As a result, I've got that intro more or less memorized, so I was pretty thrilled to see that entire sequence recreated in glorious stop motion action figure animation...

News: Underground comix legend Spain Rodriguez passed away earlier this week after a long battle with cancer. The Comics Journal's Patrick Rosenkranz remembers the 72-year-old artist, whose work mixed sex, violence, politics and social conscience, and helped to define and defend American counterculture for decades...

Kids: Some awesome minicomics were made by the Junior Girl Scouts of America Gables Elementary Troop 1320 when they visited the Cartoon Library this week as part of an effort to "learn about comics, self-publishing, and to earn their Drawing Badge...