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“I love the experience of doing a stop-motion movie. Each time, by the time I’ve finished it, I want to go off and do a live-action movie.” Anderson’s first foray into stop motion was for ...
“Marcel the Shell” began as a series of lovingly crafted homemade shorts for YouTube by Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate. So when it came time to give the diminutive breakout star the ...
How did “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” a short created in one person’s bedroom, become a full-scale, stop-motion feature film? Meticulously. By Jason Bailey When the director Dean ...
Then we shot the live-action plates with Aisling in the bed. And then we measured all the camera angles and lights and everything, and recreated the exact same angles in the stop-motion version.
In live-action cinema, innovators such as Willis O’Brien and the legendary Ray Harryhausen incorporated stop-motion sequences ...
Director Dean Fleischer Camp tells IndieWire the process of advocating for the film's Best Animated Feature qualification "is like defending your child." By qualifying for Best Animated Feature ...
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the filmmakers behind "Captain Marvel" and, more recently, "Freaky Tales," have been tapped by Laika, the Portland, Oregon-based stop-motion animation studio, to write and ...
“Stop-motion is the art form in animation that is most analogous to live-action, because you are doing real movement, from point A to point B,” del Toro said. “You cannot edit. You’re ...
Animation has become a fantastic medium of film as of late, with some of Disney’s best appearing so realistic that you might believe it to be live-action ... and that is stop motion.
Stop-motion is painstaking — it really does take 24 frames to produce one second of footage — but it’s not actually that dissimilar from a live-action set in terms of lighting, production ...