We had a talk in the Bradford Animation Festival by Mark Shapiro, the marketing manager of LAIKA animation studio and talked about the behind scenes of the hand-crafted and stop motion feature animation The Boxtrolls.
We had chance to look at the actual muppets they use in the film which is SUPER cool and it is very valuable to look at professional work in a very close distance. The hair, the costumes and even the material of it are done so perfectly, so much details and really realistic.
Shapiro introduced a lot of information about the behind scene like how long it takes to finish each shoot and the time management etc and I understand it is very hard to finish a stop-motion animation. There are so much to prepare before hand like sculpting the models, prepare different facial expression parts for each characters and creating the backgrounds. It sounds so crazy that they can only film 2-3 seconds of the film per day so the animation is full of precision and patient.
After the talk, we watched the actual film which is such a huge bonus! I have noticed so much details especially after the talk and start looking at some details like the clothes, the facial expressions on each character which is something I will never do before. I start appreciating the producers and animators even more because it is a extremely immense project that people usually neglect. The animation is very enjoyable and I especially like the character design of the trolls. They are unique and every troll has its own personality and characteristic which flavour the story and the relationship between the main characters. Stop-motion is such a crazy thing! I have never did a proper stop-motion before and watching The Boxtrolls motivates me to try out this as a new animating method.
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