Stop motion: A unique technique
Tim Burton, once again, has left his spectators speechless with the profound and meaningful Corpse Bride. With this movie, Burton shows how he masters an animation technique that has not been very used with the creation of 3-D animation; this technique is called stop motion (or frame-by-frame), and it involves the manipulation of a certain object (in this case clay puppets) and the record of its different moves in different frames.
King Kong (1933) was the first stop animated movie 
The clay puppets weremoved by very small amounts between individually photographed frames, which creates the illusion of movement when the serie of frames isplayed as a continuous sequence. When this animation contains clay puppets is called “claymation” and is highly used because of their ease of repositioning.
Corpse’s bride clay puppet 
The original 1933 King Kong was one ofthe earliest and most famous stop motion film, but Tim Burton adopted and take this technique further with his famous 1993 movie Nightmare Before Christmas. In this movie, Burton already showed his vision of the world with thin and unusually tall clay puppets and gave his unique vision of the dead world and the magic world. With Corpse Bride, Burton restates his interest and master of the stop motion technique altogether with his vision of the dead world and the living world.
Sources used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/stop_motion
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107688/
