Editing Stop motion (section)

===21st century===
[[File:Cavetown - Green.webm|thumb|The music video to "Green" (2018) by [[Cavetown]], a modern example of stop-motion animation]]
The BBC commissioned thirteen episodes of stop frame animated ''[[Summerton Mill]]'' in 2004 as inserts into their flagship pre-school program, ''[[Tikkabilla]]''. Created and produced by Pete Bryden and Ed Cookson, the series was then given its own slot on BBC1 and BBC2 and has been broadcast extensively around the world.

Other notable stop-motion feature films released since 2000 include ''[[Fantastic Mr. Fox (film)|Fantastic Mr. Fox]]'' (2009), ''[[$9.99]]'' (2009), ''[[Anomalisa]]'' (2015), [[Henry Selick|Henry Selick's]] [[Wendell & Wild|Wendell and Wild]] (2022) and ''[[Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio]]'' (2022).

In 2003, the pilot film for the series ''[[Curucuru and Friends]]'', produced by Korean studio Ffango Entertoyment is greenlighted into a [[children's television program|children's]] animated series in 2004 after an approval with the Gyeonggi Digital Contents Agency. It was aired in [[KBS1]] on November 24, 2006, and won the 13th Korean Animation Awards in 2007 for Best Animation. Ffango Entertoyment also worked with [[Frontier Works]] in [[Japan]] to produce the 2010 film remake of ''[[Cheburashka]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hancinema.net/the-future-looks-bright-for-companies-that-moved-into-the-gyeonggi-digital-content-agency-9527.html|title=The future looks bright for companies that moved into the Gyeonggi Digital Content Agency|website=hancinema.net}}</ref>

Since 2005, ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' has mostly utilized stop-motion animation, using custom made [[action figure]]s and other toys as principal characters.

Since 2009, [[Laika, LLC|Laika]], the stop-motion successor to [[Will Vinton Studios]], has released five [[feature film]]s, which have collectively grossed over $400 million: ''[[Coraline (film)|Coraline]]'' (2009), ''[[ParaNorman]]'' (2012), ''[[The Boxtrolls]]'' (2014), ''[[Kubo and the Two Strings]]'' (2016) and ''[[Missing Link (2019 film)|Missing Link]]'' (2019).

Directors like [[Tim Burton]] and [[Wes Anderson]] are still using stop-motion animation in some of their live action films.<ref>[https://screenrant.com/beetlejuice-2-tim-burton-stop-motion-animation-trademark-revive/ Beetlejuice 2 Revives A 42-Year-Old Tim Burton Trademark Missing From His Last 3 Movies]</ref><ref>[https://theweek.com/articles/761474/how-wes-anderson-sneaks-stopmotion-animation-into-every-film-makes How Wes Anderson sneaks stop-motion animation into every film he makes]</ref>

In November 2024, [[Disney]] released ''Mickey & Minnie's Christmas Carols'', a series of five stop-motion shorts featuring Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pluto.