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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            Rudolph is on his way to televisions across the U.S. in the form of a 75-minute stop-motion animation film.
                        
—John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 6 Dec. 2024
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            Prieto made sketches to figure out the technique, and then used it to create a short stop-motion film.
                        
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
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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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            The beauty of stop-motion is that everything must be made by hand, even more so back in 2006 when the film began its production.
                        
—Emiliana Betancourt, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
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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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            Both Feathers and Tweedy may be giants in the stop-motion antagonist world, but who’s the worst and, most importantly, who would win in a fight?
                        
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
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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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            Last year the world was blessed with Pokémon Concierge, a beautiful stop-motion Pokémon series made for Netflix that captured hearts across the world.
                        
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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            The bespoke space is custom-made for Passion’s 2D series work as well as its 3D and stop-motion production for shorts and series.
                        
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 8 Oct. 2024
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            The folk tunes, combined with stop-motion visuals, add a poetic touch to themes such as resilience, heartbreak and growth.
                        
—Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
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            Rudolph typically spends this month on televisions across the U.S. in the form of a 75-minute stop-motion animation film.
                        
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Dec. 2024
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            Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales proved that stop-motion graphics can work great in games, even if limited to just one costume.
                        
—PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
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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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            Or at its stop-motion collaborations with one of Britain’s most beloved studios.
                        
—James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
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            In the ideological battle for the soul of video games, South of Midnight (out April 8) is the stop-motion heart beating a strange, staccato rhythm at its center.
                        
—Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2025
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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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            In the latter, stop-motion was used in the script to reveal the fate of Deetz family patriarch Charles Deetz, which also includes a cameo appearance by Burton.
                        
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
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            Nintendo also revealed a new series of stop-motion video shorts designed for kids.
                        
—PC Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
 
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