Stop Animation

So I've been checking out some stop animation videos on YouTube and I've been noticing a pattern - old video games. I never really realized it before but older video games ARE stop animation. Especially in the first video (below). Anyways I decided to search for stop animation because one of my favorite movies was made that way - The Nightmare Before Christmas. The style isn't realistic... it's not technologically advanced... but it's really cool! In some ways I think people tend have more respect for these types of movies because you can see how much work they put into it. With most other movies everything flows so smoothly you can't tell where work has been done. With stop animation you can see the movement and I think people figure that it must take at least 3 -4 times as much time to make a stop animation than a video. Stop animation is pictures... lots and lots of pictures... but you have to take them individually with much time in between. Video is also lots and lots of pictures... but they're taken so fast you can't tell the difference from one to another. Funny how the speed can change the effect and style so much.