Stop motion has been used more as cinema has become more popular, for example it has been used in the original Star Wars trilogy, in a New Hope the chess sequence is done with stop motion, in The Empire Strikes Back, the Tauntauns and AT-AT walkers were all done by stop motion and then in Return of the Jedi the AT-ST walkers were animated by stop motion animation. The many shots including the ghosts in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DGF5UYBox0 Raiders of The Lost Ark, (ignore the stupid music)
In the 1980s there was Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Little Mermaid, then going into the 90's there was Henry Selick who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas and Tim Burton was producer, and it was one of the most popular and widely released stop motion films, then after those there was James and The Giant Peach and Coraline which Henry Selick directed but in 2005 there was The Corpse Bride which Tim Burton had directed himself, which was animated as a claymation stop motion, with the same sort of genre as The Nightmare Before Christmas.
The most well known stop motion characters in all the history of stop motion is most probably Wallace and Gromit, whose creator Nick Park won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Wallace and Gromit; Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
C.Jordan
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