Stop Motion

For those of you that don't know stop motion is a filming technique. A picture is taken of an object and it is moved slightly then another picture is taken, when these are played as a continuous sequence a movement illusion is created.
Stop motion has been a huge part of filming for more than 100 years now, it was originally used in 1898 by Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton in which they made a circus of animals come to life. Since then stop motion was used as an illusion technique in films (before CGI). For example in 'The Raiders of The Lost Ark' stop motion is used to create ghosts, or in 'The Terminator' stop motion is used for an alien spaceship scene. Stop Motion also played a huge part it children's animations, it was used in the pilot of south park which was made almost entirely out of construction paper. It was also used to create animation phenomenon 'Pingu' about a penguin.
CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) has effectively rendered stop motion obsolete as a serious special effects tool in feature film but many still use stop motion for its very low price and unique texture. For example Tim Burton used it over CGI in the making of his move 'The Corpse Bride' which was puppet animated in 2005.
To finish, although there are newer and probably more realistic ways of creating the same effect as stop motion they will never be the same and therefore stop motion still remains a key part of the film industry.