Coraline: Behind the scenes

As a fan of stop-motion animation, I felt that the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline, directed by Henry Selick was worth a mention. Using the puppet animation techniques favoured by Tim Burton, especially in the highly successful Nightmare before Christmas, also directed by Henry Selick, Coraline succesfully captures the twisted and fantastical fairytale world within the book. The film uses beautifully sculpted puppets that reflect the strange world that Coraline inhabits.

I always find behind the scenes footage of animated works to be interesting, it allows you to get close to the thoughts, the effort, and considering the amount of time it takes to animate, the dedication, that go into making a feature length animation

The following video provides an interesting insight into Henry Selick's way of thinking, treating the puppets as though they were living actors, an attitude that shows in the finished animation, with the puppets showing the same level of emotion that a real living person would.




The following video shows actual behind the scenes footage, and a small amount of commentary from the director, animators, voice actors and even Neil Gaiman who wrote the original story.




Further behind the scenes videos can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/FocusFeatures#g/c/6D09CFA73C054466, and I highly recommend watching because it provides a fantastic insight into the world of stop-motion animation