Let's take a look at seven stop-motion movies that can teach you so much about ... should help you tap into your own voice and give you ideas of what you can bring to the screen.

[Narrator] Stop-motion animated movies have been around a long time ... Lost Ark" and "Around the World in 80 Days." And it was an idea 15 years in the making. But first, a little background.

Consistent lighting is vital, so it's a good idea to use artificial lights ... Finally, you'll need to export your stop-motion movie as a video file, using MP4, MOV or AVI formats.

Stop motion animation is often called a lost art, as doing it (or at least, doing it well) is incredibly difficult and time consuming. Every detail on the screen, no matter how minute ...

The Sister's Bloom, an eco-friendly stop-motion animation studio based in Kalispell, bloomed into what it is because of a passion for storytelling and a quest to create stop-motioned animated stories ...