I saw the trailer for this when we took Buddy to see "Bolt" a while back but I never realized it was all stop motion. Now I want to see it even more. Actually I wish they'd make a full length documentary of how they made it, getting to see all the little props would be amazing. Here's a little bit of the process.
(Added: if you go to the website and click on Coraline's bedroom link there's a great little short film about Althea Crome the knitter of Coraline's teeny sweater as well a free pattern to make the sweater in child and adult sizes.)
We are looking forward to this movie as well. I read the book when if first came out--Miranda was just a baby and it's been sitting on our shelf for years, she just read it a few weeks ago.
Have you heard about the Coraline boxes? 50 boxes were put together by the creators and sent to different bloggers. Unfortunately I was not one of the lucky chosen ones, drat.
http://www.notcot.com/archives/2009/01/coraline_50_box.php
Posted by: Donna | January 17, 2009 at 04:24 PM
absoluetly gob smackingly wonderful!!
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Posted by: i cant sew | January 17, 2009 at 06:44 PM
wow i had no idea this was stop motion! such a tedious, beautiful thing. love it.
Posted by: Erica K | January 17, 2009 at 08:52 PM
WoW what a cool clip-I love that kind of animation! Sooo fun! Hope you are having an awesome weekend!~Smiles~Tam!
Posted by: Tam | January 18, 2009 at 12:32 AM
My three year old will love this! One of her favortie movies is the Corpse Bride, and yes she is 3! Nothing scares her! She loves anything creepy and spooky! This will be great to take her to! Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Amy | January 18, 2009 at 05:44 AM
hello!
I absolutely love your blog, and "hearing" that you love stop motion, well, I thought that you might appreciate this...
http://www.staticmultimedia.com/film/videos/the_making_of_coraline_videos
:)
Posted by: Sandra Murta | January 18, 2009 at 08:20 AM
If you are interested in stop-motion you should check out the end of Nightmare Before Christmas. There is a full documentry on Tim Burton and his skilled staff of artists and how they created the whole move using stop-motion. Like Amy posted above, Corpse Bride, also by Tim Burton, is all stop-motion. And ... although I do understand that you would have to be a true fan to watch it ... South Park is all stop-motion with cardboard and paper cut-outs.
It's all truly amazing when I don't even have the time or patience to do a load of laundry!
Posted by: michelle | January 28, 2009 at 07:02 AM
If you have the movie "Chicken Run" they have information about how Peter Lord and Nick Park made these characters. It's quite interesting.
Posted by: eileen | January 28, 2009 at 11:42 AM
I can't wait to see this film!
Posted by: roz | January 29, 2009 at 10:37 AM