How to Use stop-motion in a Sentence
stop-motion
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There were a lot of challenges to do that stuff in stop-motion.
—Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2023
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The duo also have the stop-motion movie Wildwood set to release in 2025.
—Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 29 May 2024
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For more on what makes the stop-motion movie so special, check out our review.
—Andrew Webster, The Verge, 13 Mar. 2023
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Released in 2000, the film went on to become the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 16 Apr. 2024
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When a stop-motion alien shows up and steals the meteorite, the town is forced to quarantine and go a little cuckoo.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
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Plus, the movie landed at just the right time for stop-motion in 2009, the same year as the equally successful stop-motion film Coraline.
—Milan Polk, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
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Tippett also spent decades working on his own film, the stop-motion nightmare Mad God, which finally saw the light of day in 2022.
—Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 16 July 2024
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Meanwhile, also on the streamer, Dawn of the Nugget is the sequel to 2000’s Chicken Run, still the most successful stop-motion film ever.
—Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
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Aardman’s legendary stop-motion franchise is back with a new feature in time for the holidays.
—Rafael Motamayor, IndieWire, 16 June 2024
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Twenty-three years later, the sequel seems like a shoo-in for a nom, boasting Aardman’s trademark mix of British wit and amusing stop-motion work.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
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Booth posted a stop-motion-style video of her and Mock shooting off tubes filled with blue confetti and captioned the post with a simple blue heart emoji.
—Jamie Ballard, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2023
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While Haru might resemble Misty (red hair, Psyduck), the show is a new story in a stop-motion-animation style.
—Vulture, 27 Feb. 2023
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Sora is above and beyond any current AI video generators, which feel more like stop-motion reels than true videos.
—Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
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In contrast to the stop-motion workplace comedy, the real-world celebrity guests will conduct their sides of the interviews in live-action Space Ghost Coast to Coast style.
—Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
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The live-action hybrid stop-motion film recently picked up the Annie Award for indie feature as well as two other awards.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Mar. 2023
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But stop-motion filmmakers don’t bring the Hollywood flash or glamor.
—Mike Rogoway | Mrogoway@oregonian.com, oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2023
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Back in New York, a stop-motion animation studio and new Cannon and Sony cameras are among the latest additions to the campus.
—Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
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The stop-motion effect highlights both stagnation and decay.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
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The 90-second movie was created using stop-motion techniques, as flat characters, props, and backgrounds were drawn on an easel or made from paper.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 June 2023
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But McLean said that embracing new technology helped push the emotional range of a stop-motion character to a whole new level.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 13 June 2024
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Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion version is the one that won the award at Sunday's ceremony, earning the filmmaker his third career statue.
—Nick Romano and Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
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Meanwhile, multimedia artists worked together to produce a stop-motion film, and dancers worked to connect through the expression of movement.
—Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2024
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The stop-motion production has an 8-in-9 chance of delivering the third Oscar of del Toro’s illustrious career.
—Ben Zauzmer, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2023
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The track arrives with a stop-motion music video directed by Chris Hopewell that offers up a brutal post-apocalyptic parable with a heavy existential twist at the end.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2023
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There’s documentaries, there’s puppetry, there’s yarn stop-motion.
—Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
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Promising a mix of adventure, laughs, and emotion, the follow-up to this record-breaking stop-motion animation film looks set to carry on its legendary tradition.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
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This charming stop-motion adult drama took nearly a decade to create and will open in limited release on Oct. 25, with a wider expansion throughout November.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 18 July 2024
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The studio specializes in short films, music videos and feature films using stop-motion animation.
—Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
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The insect flutters her antennae to taste the egg mass beneath her, movements stuttering like stop-motion animation.
—Nala Rogers, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
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Basically, the movie does for directing stop-motion animation what The Shining did for writing a novel.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2024
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