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Best stop-motion animated films

Pumpkin kings, princes and princesses, mad gods, fantastic foxes: Feel like you’re wearing the wrong tros? Never mind: pop in your button eyes, get your shoes on, attach your two strings and tell us what in the Wak Wak are the ten best films on this fantastic planet that deal in stop-motion manipulation of puppets or objects. The science of sleep says it’s time for a claydream; features, shorts and predominantly animated with live-action moments are all wildly welcome. “If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane,” says stop-motion wizard Ray Harryhausen.