Is it financial or are there other reasons?
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Computer Graphics or CGI is considerably easier and cheaper to do these days. A scene can be manufactured by artists in a few weeks using off the shelf software.
Stop motion meanwhile is a very specific art form that requires talented model builders, set designers, matte painters, and specialized equipment including cameras. It’s also a very painstaking process. It can take months just to build the models and sets.
So Hollywood has mostly turned away from stop motion these days due to cost and expediency.
Well done stop motion does look better on screen than CGI because CGI can’t quite replicate everything perfectly but it is constantly improving.
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