While it was more stickmation than stop motion, that technique definitely has its uses. Its abundance here really ups the fun ante, to say nothing of how much time it saved them.
Those facial animations are quite impressive. I suspect they're using a pretty sophisticated program to create 'em. I recently did my first foray into that realm using just photoshop:
http://www.joedios.com/dioramas/sho...2496&original=1
The sets are great! They got a lot of mileage out of that doorstop
