StickBot

There are these things called StickBots. They are little action figures that you can move around and pose in all sorts of ways. And you do stop motion with them. I have done a few short little ones that are pretty cool. There is even an app for it. The first one I made with a prop was one where the stickbot walked onscreen, dodged a pencil stabbing at him, then did the matrix has it came at him again. It looks very nice and was very smooth.