*drool* animation...
Dec. 23rd, 2007 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ginasketchOh how I want to see this. It doesn't come out until 2009 though.
It's all stop motion, and shot stereoscopically, which means it has a dual digital camera rig so there can be showings in 3D. This is another thing that's slipped through my fingers, since I remember Gareth Richards from Mackinnon and Saunders telling me that they were going to work on a movie based on the book. I didn't have enough experience anyway.:P
Click here to watch some of the animation. God, it looks divine
http://www.neilgaiman.com/mediafiles/exclusive/Video/Coraline/sneak.mov
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It's all stop motion, and shot stereoscopically, which means it has a dual digital camera rig so there can be showings in 3D. This is another thing that's slipped through my fingers, since I remember Gareth Richards from Mackinnon and Saunders telling me that they were going to work on a movie based on the book. I didn't have enough experience anyway.:P
Click here to watch some of the animation. God, it looks divine
http://www.neilgaiman.com/mediafiles/exclusive/Video/Coraline/sneak.mov
P.S. This journal is now not friends only again, though only friends can comment, and most posts are friends only anyway.
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Date: 2007-12-23 02:53 pm (UTC)It's stop motion? Blimey, I thought it was CGI...
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Date: 2007-12-23 03:01 pm (UTC)People thought the same thing about corpse bride when it came out. There was SOME cgi but it was used for minor things likes birds flying, the butterflies coming out of her veil, etc.
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Date: 2007-12-23 03:10 pm (UTC)How do things like lips/mouth work?
About Corpse Bride, I also knew it was stop motion because I'd read that it was being shot with a run-off-the-mill DSLR and not some fancy custom built animation camera.
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Date: 2007-12-23 03:14 pm (UTC)We're talking Mackinnon and Saunders here. They're geniuses when it comes to that sort of thing.
For Corpse Bride there was a built in system in the ears of the puppets where the animator could twist an allen key to adjust the facial expression bit by bit. For Coraline, it looks like a combination of this technique and "replacements", meaning there are thousands of mouths, eyebrows, positions for one character. Pingu was done this way.
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Date: 2007-12-23 03:23 pm (UTC)I don't even want to think about how long a single frame takes to set up.
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Date: 2007-12-23 03:27 pm (UTC)Yeah the skin stretching is the allen key technique. It looks like they've improved it since Corpse Bride, since Gareth Richards told me they had trouble with the vowel "o" and the character's faces looked a bit odd when that happened.
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Date: 2007-12-23 03:34 pm (UTC)I had a feeling there was something I was missing...:P
My friend shot her film at uni on a regular DSLR.
Aw this is making me want to make stop motion puppets again.
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