Does anyone else here have an interest in stop-motion animation?

I'm curious to find more stop-motion "out there".  Anyone know any cool stuff, either entirely in SM, or that has strong elements of it in it?  What can people recommend?

I ordered Mio and Mao for my gf (SM fan and lover of cats), which unfortunately hasn't arrived yet (her birthday's today).  In that order I also grabbed myself Quaqquao which I really dig.

SM stuff I have on DVD:
Corpse Bride
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire / Legend of the Lost Tribe
Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit (though I'm thinking of disposing of this one).

Gogs: The Complete Collection
Robot Chicken: Season 1
The Trap Door: Complete Collection

I also have Lavender Castle on order from the UK (in addition to the three volumes of Quaqquao I alluded to earlier.

Anything from the master of stop-motion animation Ray Harryhausen.

Clash of the Titans
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Jason and the Argonauts
The Valley of Gwangi
It Came from Beneath the Sea

Of my own recommendation, there's a wonderful DVD called "The World's Greatest Animation" which contains two short films of, in my opinion, the greatest examples of stop motion: The 7-minute German film 'Balance', not so much about technique, but brimming with ideas; and Nick Park's 'Creature Comforts'. I believe this is long out of print, but be on the lookout for it on eBay.

Pretty much everything by the Aardman Studios, although if Wallace & Gromit is not your cup of tea, you may not like their other work. For more innocent fare, there are some Jules Bass animated films on DVD. I'm not sure if there are some films by Ladislas Starevich out there on DVD, but his work is amazing, more so for being one of the first to pioneer the stop motion techniques.

Also truly highly recommended, all the works by the wonderful Czech animators Jirí Trnka and Jan Švankmajer. Some of Trnka may be a bit hard to find but the Švankmajer films are readily available on DVD.

Švankmajer sometimes may not be to everybody's taste since his work his heavily surreal and VERY dark (His take on Alice in Wonderland is creepy as hell). Personally I love him, if you don't have the 2-Disc set of The Collected Shorts of Jan Švankmajer, run and get it. Great stuff. 

Quoting SailorRipley:

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Of my own recommendation, there's a wonderful DVD called "The World's Greatest Animation" which contains two short films of, in my opinion, the greatest examples of stop motion: The 7-minute German film 'Balance', not so much about technique, but brimming with ideas; and Nick Park's 'Creature Comforts'. I believe this is long out of print, but be on the lookout for it on eBay.

Sounds promising (except the OOP part ).

Quoting SailorRipley:

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Also truly highly recommended, all the works by the wonderful Czech animators Jirí Trnka and Jan Švankmajer. Some of Trnka may be a bit hard to find but the Švankmajer films are readily available on DVD.

Trnka's stuff is out on DVD (released about the same time as Švankmajer's)
Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka

Quoting Telecine:

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Why not start where it all began, The Lost World (1925) Directed by Harry Hoyt. See:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016039/

Certainly looks like one to check out.  Thanks!

Quoting 8ballMax:

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Anything from the master of stop-motion animation Ray Harryhausen.

Clash of the Titans
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Jason and the Argonauts
The Valley of Gwangi
It Came from Beneath the Sea

It looks like the best bet for getting those are the "Fantastic Films of Ray Harryhausen sets.  I've been considering getting some of his stuff for a while.  Looking around, I may have to get Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years set.

Quoting GSyren:

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I can't believe nobody has mentioned the original King Kong (1933) with animation by Harryhausen's mentor, Willis O'Brien.

I should have mentioned it!  I own (and love) it, but missed listing it because my tagging is for fully stop-motion, not stuff with elements (even strong ones such as that) of SM.

I have quite a few Ray Harryhausen films in my collection.

Brett Piper is also a very talented stop-motion artist who still uses it in his films. They are low-budget and not for everyone's taste, but I love the fact that he doesn't eat up lame CG effects!

If you find Švankmajer and Trnka to your taste, you can't go wrong with the Brother Quay.  A new collection of their short films was recently released by Zeitgeist called Phantom Museums.

Quoting Katatonia:

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Brett Piper is also a very talented stop-motion artist who still uses it in his films. They are low-budget and not for everyone's taste, but I love the fact that he doesn't eat up lame CG effects!

Oh yeah! I forgot about Piper. I'll buy anything where he's done stop motion. The films are usually cheesy as hell, but the animation makes it all worth while for me. I'll take those over Transformers any day, even if Piper isn't nearly as talanted an animator as Harryhausen or O'Brien. I thought Bite Me! was especially fun - and it has Misty Mundae in the lead...