his first stop motion animation using puppets. Called 'The Walt Disney of Eastern Europe' he made headway with technology and possibilities of stop motion, one of the key players in bringing the style to main stream audiences (Dubská, 2012)

The animated movie Spirited Away, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, is an animated film masterpiece. The movie was hand-drawn, not computer-generated, this is what set this movie apart from other films of a similar genre. The storyline is about a young girl called  Chihiro and her parents who stumble upon what seemed like an abandoned amusement park. After eating food from the amusement park, her parents transform into giant pigs. Chihiro meets the mysterious Haku, who explains that the park is a resort for supernatural beings who need a break from their time spent in the earthly realm, so Chihiro must work there to earn her parents freedom from their curse. 

Directed by James Cameron and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger.

T2 was the most expensive film ever at the time and remains the highest-grossing movie of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s career (Imdb.com. 2021). It's also one of a handful of films that changed the world of visual effects forever. One of the greatest technological advancements of this film was their use of CGI, specifically with the T-1000, the Liquid Metal Terminator (Oseman, 2021).
The CGI Team pioneered with their incredible techniques to have the T-1000 appear malleable and dense while having the scene reflect off its chrome-like liquid in real-time. Having the T-1000 shapeshift and walk through bars like they're nothing created a truly terrifying machine to fight against.

1991 still were the early days for relying on digital techniques to help animate films. But Beauty and The Beast's Ballroom dance sequence demonstrated how to efficiently combine both technologies together.

The Ballroom itself was a CG-created scene, which allowed the animators to rig a digital camera to path out the 360 sweeping shot. This cleared the way to allow the animators to focus entirely on the characters alone, leading the charge was the then, 24-year-old, James Baxtor as lead animator and supervisor (Disney, 2006). 

James was in charge of designing both Belle and the Beast for this sequence as these two had to be connected during the entire shot. He studied dancers and waltzing lessons for this sequence. The zooming and panning of the camera meant that the characters would also need to be animated to scale in respect to the distance of the camera too, providing an additional layer to the challenge. James Baxtor would go on to lead supervise many more Disney animated films (Ahi, M. and Karaoghlanian, A., 2012).

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a stop-motion film made in 1993 and unlike most Hollywood films, the production had to start without a script at all. It the beginning, the team focussed on making their character designs, miniature sets, puppet rigs, and costumes.
The film took a lot of inspiration from The Night Before Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, with this film being a mash-up of both in a way. The idea was pitched to Disney in the early 1980s as a T.V. show, but due to its Stop-Motion style, Disney didn't feel that it suited their slate. Because of this, Burton left Disney to pursue feature-length projects and began making many other successful films before Nightmare, eventually getting his chance to make his dream project in 1993.

The film was praised by many for its very unique style of puppetry and stop-motion, despite some characters like Sally or Oggie Boogie being extremely difficult to animate due to their proportions and (in Oggie's case) the rig's weight. It's an aesthetic style of animation that doesn't get seen often, and if it were made with today's technology, it most likely would be all CGI.

The film originally started its life as a short film, Tin Toy, and as the writers worked through their ideas, Tinny soon evolved into a space toy first-named Luner Larry. This character would eventually evolve into the more familiar Buzz Lightyear in honor of the American Naval aviator, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. The first rendition of Toy  Story was received poorly by Disney Executives, saying that Woody's character, in particular, was seen as "a real jerk" and very unlikable. 
The story was rewritten to make Woody far more likable and noble, but still maintained his ego just a bit, and Buzz was altered to be the more "deluded space ranger", allowing more comedic opportunities. 

Toy Story was incredibly successful, receiving praise from almost everyone and even being ranked "Greatest Animated Movie of All Time" in 2003 by the Online Film Critics Society. 

During development, Naughty Dog had a philosophy of maximizing the use of the hardware, which lead to decisions like not using textures on Crash himself, and even hacking into the Playstation hardware the "steal" as much memory as possible. 
One incredible technique was the levels were specifically designed to show very little at any given time, doing this allowed the devs to load sections of a level and maximize the amount of memory the console had, making for some of the most graphically intensive levels the Playstation had ever seen.

After many months of dedication, shortcuts, and impressive technical strategies, Crash Bandicoot quickly became one of the most successful 3D platformers for its time. 

The process of making film scenes with both animated characters and live actors was a complex, but possible process. Michael would play basketball against other actors in green suits (To be later keyed out) and animaters were also on set to assist with the performance and put forth their ideas of how they would approach the shots. 

Despite the very rough and difficult production, Space Jam Proved to be a smash hit at the box office. It became a merchandising juggernaut for everyone involved and even helped relaunch Looney Tunes relevance. Space Jam is an incredibly unique film that very few filmmakers have attempted to replicate.