Coming towards more present day, animation and stop motion has come a long way with people like Joseph Plateau, Willis O’ Brien and Lotte Reiniger starting it off. The movement of models was probably built on the most with new companies and productions using their own methods to create them. Aardman Animations is nearly a household name because of their stop-frame work, starting with basic models like“ Morph” a plasticine model that starred in short skits they moved to bigger and better things like“ Chicken Run”. Using their own design and frames, Aardman Animations have advanced the movement of models by creating almost a full skeleton. This type of model allowed the animation easier, slowly moving the character’ s inch by inch to do an action then when played by at a higher speed creates the movement. Other stop-frame movies they made such as Wallace and Gromit have similar techniques used to create it, these movies also have a frame rate of around 24 frames per second. This is an important step forward for animation, making for an easier and cheaper way to create stop-motion films, Aardman helped build on this with their models based off the early design made by Willis H. O ' Brien.
Another man to help further the popularity of stop-motion movies with his own techniques is Tim Burton, bringing out“ A nightmare before Christmas” in 1993 he helped show an old style can still be done. Possibly inspired by the quite interesting work of Lotte Reiniger Tim Burton created an earie Christmas story all in stop-motion. Like Chicken Run Burton directed the movement of his models and sets, the models were made from clay / plasticine with wire frames to keep them still and straight. This stopped the models from moving and allowed for correct movement, since his models were quite slim or mis-shaped a full skeleton wouldn’ t been needed. The film was a success and soon got stop-frame movies back onto the big screen picture, Tim Burton’ s own style was what won it over using a movie style seen as old and adding his own dark creative input created a classic film.