User blog comment:Betwixt/WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!/@comment-1705775-20111208162243/@comment-1705775-20111208162644

that's what I meant: it was stop-motion and had a lot of work involved.. not that some CGI and live-action don't.. problem is many CGI films of the time had little plot and were mostly for show while Coraline had plot but many didn't seem to "get" it for whatever reason.