Is it financial or are there other reasons?
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Stop motion began as a method of animating scenes that were otherwise impossible. If for example you wanted some skeletons to jump up and fight your main character but all your computers are basically hand-cranked, there isn’t any option but to use stop motion to painstakingly animate those skeletons.
These days all the problems stop motion was used to solve are better handled by computer animation or other techniques. It is still a distinctive style which some people may enjoy, but in a practical sense it is probably easier to make a photorealistic computer model of a miniature, animate that, and if you want to only render fewer frames than normal to obtain the jerky stop motion effect.
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