I had a thought regarding being able to make these things as stills and not in motion. It would take ages, but for short clips, over time, would look great.
What if the artists who do the still shots got frame-by-frame stills of a sequence, edited each still, then strung them together again with the film's audio? It would work, it would just take ages, since it's 24 frames per SECOND.
Just a thought.