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Stop-motion marvels During the last two decades, the stop-motion style of animation has grown in popularity for full-length feature films

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' (1993)

This $20 million musical features a history-making mixture of stop-motion animation, three-dimensional sets and imaginative graphics. After having accidentally discovered Christmas, the ruler of Halloweentown decides to kidnap Santa Claus and then deliver his land's macabre version of Christmas presents to the boys and girls of Christmastown.

'Chicken Run' (2000), left

Nick Park, the creator of the characters Wallace & Gromit, co-directed, co-produced and co-wrote this story of a group of chickens who try to escape from Tweedy's farm before the family turns them into chicken pies. A tough-minded hen, Ginger (voiced by Julia Sawalha), and a would-be swashbuckling rooster, Rocky (voiced by Mel Gibson), become the unlikely heroes.

'Coraline' (2009)

Henry Selick, who directed "The Nightmare Before Christmas," returned with a melding of stop-motion and 3-D to create a fantastical, magical world. On this twisted, trippy adventure, secret doors lead to an alternative universe where Coraline Jones (voiced by Dakota Fanning) finds parents and toys that only seem to be better versions of what she already has.

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