After Coraline, Paranorman and The Boxtrolls it would be easy to simply call Laika a stop motion animation studio. They are definitely that. But with each movie, culminating with August’s Kubo and the Two Strings, the company continues to change what stop motion can be.
Source: io9 – How Kubo and the Two Strings Mixes Stop-Motion and Technology in Fascinating, Innovative Ways