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* ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]] and Friends'' had absolutely spectacular model work. The people and animal miniatures were the only tells that those weren't real trains. Sadly, following the fifth season things became less and less realistic, and now the models have been retired in favour of cut-rate CGI. The quality of writing has deteriorated as well. But this is not the side for that. The model sets were stunning, absolute masterpieces. The engines carried onboard smoke machines that puffed like a real locomotive, the couplings and buffers worked, the buildings and scenery looked like they were plucked from real life. Nil Unquam Simile indeed.

** Never once did it occur to this troper as a child that those were models. They seriously looked like real, life-sized trains. And the way they ''moved''...with the pistons actually chugging away, and the siderods turning the wheels...just wow.

* Any Fleischer Studios short that features their so-called "tabletop" process. The effect is obviously dated now, but for its time it was considered revolutionary.

* [http://vimeo.com/12339283 In The Fall Of Gravity,] an 11-minute stop motion short whose [[Beyond the Impossible|impossibly]] [[Animation Bump|smooth]] animation rivals today's advances in CGI.