Watched on BluRay last night and wasn't really impressed at all. I remember seeing promos from when they were making it over a year ago and it looked amazing, had sharp lines and a 3D look (without being 3D). The finished version just looks digitally animated. Why would they "soften" the look? Why bother spending all that time doing stop-motion?
shareStop-motion looks like that. After you notice that it was not 3D, you begin to realize that it's not.
Besides, I think that the stop-motion was amazing. It was the best stop-motion of a time.
Stop-motion on Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer looks better from 51 years ago.
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shareThey did the same thing with Coraline. I don't remember exactly how they did it with Coraline as it was years ago that I saw the videos on YouTube. I seem to recall digital animators and fx people on computers, painstakingly going through stop motion frames to clean up all the lines where the different expressions of mouths connect to the rest of the head, and softening up edges. I imagine they might also use special filters before adding color fx. It seems a good way to go insane, considering the thousands and thousands of frames to go through.
I remember that lots of stop motion fans, and stop motion armatures and wannabes like me, as well as some pros, saying the same thing asking why do they do it and what people think. It seems to be the look of major projects with huge budgets. I'm sure from what I hear that it is extremely difficult to get the suits and investors interested in making stop motion movies without the overdone polish.
To me it's weird because it looks animated. But the fact is that it is different. The style wouldn't be the same if it was purely digitally animated. Stop motion has a certain look even when it is polished into such a soft fuzzy look.
I actually have asked this question myself. I guess I answered it while pondering about it and making this post reply :)
I saw the movie a few days ago for the first time and i really had to look hard if it was CGI or stop motion, but it is SM and really some of the best i have ever seen, some of the smoothest there is, and i also loved the artstyle they used.
shareI wasn't entirely sure whether this was real stop motion or cgi to resemble stop motion. Well at the end I saw it during the credits scene but still looks like a hybrid.
However, I liked animation and the clay like design.
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shareYou can see it clearly stop motion, it's still jerky at times, faces expression is still limited, you can see they are physical puppets and sets and not flat.. you can even see the fabric on the costumes.
The fact you couldn't tell at first is a huge compliment to any stop-motion animator.
The use computers to edit out the wires, and supports and to touch up backgrounds and effects. You can't make stop-motion smoother with a computer, you can just add a frame in afterwards.
And as someone else pointed out Stop motion / Puppet animation is just that.. Animation, and one the the oldest forms of animation.