When browsing the youtubes, most examples of stop motion have little to no story and are made to focus on the animation.  I'm not saying this is a bad thing, in fact it is rather GOOD.  When I look for stop motion videos on youtube, I am almost always looking for something that is short, good quality, and fun to watch.  I enjoy looking at the technical aspects and wondering how things were done.  A good example of that type of video would be the artist/filmmaker/channel "PES".  ANYWAY I am not analyzing those at the moment, so I will stop talking about them.  HERE. this short film is called "Zero."

This is a brilliant example of an animation driven by narrative. There is an interesting Combining of material characters and sets with computer generated environments.  Despite the "virtual interference," the stop motion animation is not detracted from.  The film is so narrative based, that I found myself forgetting about the animation completely at points.  The story is sweet and thought provoking; except for the ending.  I thought that part was a little weird.

The uploader states in the comments that the yarn figures were 20 cm tall.  They were most likely likely shot on their little sets and front of little green screens (for the exteriors and backgrounds).  I think the mouths of the yarn people are animated, since the strands that overlap their mouths do not twitch between frames.  At first I thought that they might have been using construction paper mouths, but then I decided otherwise, as their movement under the string was too clean.

It seems that yarn people are becoming very popular.  A full length movie was release in the past couple of years titled "9."  That movie was based on a 9 minute computer animated short film about yarn people with numbers on their chests (!) in a post-apocalyptic fallout setting.  To me, it seems a little too similar to  "Zero."  Also, as I was searching for a video to share, I came across two other animations about yarn-beings.  Coincidence? I think not.  Youtube is obviously corrupt.