Animation is an interesting medium because, as realistic as one technique can get, there are still others that can portray something different, but equally compelling. Avatar may show the hyper-realistic possibilities of motion-capture, but that doesn’t negate the nostalgic feeling of a hand-drawn 2D cartoon.
Of all the animation techniques, one stands alone as the most time-consuming and labor-intensive: stop-motion animation. Even as digital animation is evolving quickly, there’s nothing like the tangibility of a stop-motion film — just look at last year’s Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl from Aardman.
