Something I needed to say...

[JaseSF]

To me, it comes down to this: stop-motion typically features a very personal individual representation, the hands out work and artistic expression of one or only a few people's vision whereas with CGI, you often have dozens to hundreds of people working on different elements and it tends to lack that same individual focus. I find movies with CGI monsters it's rare that said monsters put forth as much personality as creatures of the past brought to life by more individual creative processes. The characters seem less characters to me and more just there like video game characters, nice to look at if well done but somehow lacking that soul, that depth, that element of realism that makes me think what I'm seeing is even but for a brief moment real and not a cartoon.  That's not to said that CGI hasn't been well done on occasion (any film that gets you caring about its characters succeeds in my opinion but if I have no feeling about the thing being presented and if it never strikes me as being a real feeling creature, I can have no empathy for it) - Jurassic Park did a great job with it IMO as did the 2005 King Kong movie and the Lord of the Rings films yet I can't say I've ever cared for any CGI character as much as I cared for the stop-motion King Kong or Ymir, the suitmation Godzilla or the make-up created Wolf Man or Frankenstein Monster.