LAIKA, the company who made Coraline and The Boxtrolls, know that stop motion animation is a precision job. Accidentally moving a character can mean having to restart from the beginning. LAIKA had 3D printed various puppets for Coraline, and for ParaNorman they had used color 3D printing for complex hues and textures. The puppets had tiny metal skeletons which allowed ease of movement for them, the puppets had to get custom miniature outfits for their films, and the puppets allowed for more than a million different facial expressions.
I can respect stop motion animation, especially since it is risky. One bad movement and you have to do a whole project over. I loved the film The Nightmare Before Christmas and I could never make one of those films, they are very time consuming and it is rather difficult. I think it's pretty cool that they were able to 3d print those puppets, I didn't even know that 3d printing was common when Coraline was being made. Making tiny clothes for those puppets had to have been a nightmare, and a weird thing to ask someone else to do.
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