Thursday, January 22, 2015
'The Boxtrolls' Clip Shows How One of the Movie's Most Complicated Creations Was Made
Movie News | Movies.com: Even if you don't love Laika's movies (though how could you not?!), it's impossible to deny the sheer craft that goes in to making the stop-motion wonders found in ParaNorman, Coraline and, most recently, The Boxtrolls. In an age where every major animated movie is done in CGI, it is the last big giant clinging to a more old-school, traditional animation method that was around long before computers were used in filmmaking.
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I'm so excited for this movie to come out. Stop-Motion is one of my favorite types of animated films because even though it's a fantasy world, it feels more real than the animation we have to this day. Wallace and Gromit, Mr. Fantastic Fox, and Nightmare Before Christmas are some of my favorite movies of all time and they are stop-motion. I've always wanted to be a part of stop-motion animation in some way and it is still a reoccurring interest of mine. But that's only a possibility if it runs in my path because actually applying for that kind of a career can be very challenging and it all depends on who you know. However, Box trolls looks like an incredible stop-motion animation and with all of these new ideas on the mechanics of this piece seems to make this movie a must see. I will definitely be looking for those gears when I see this film.
That clip was just fantastic. The robot claw thingy looked amazing, and that fact that it actually kinda works is really cool. The way that the gears work and look is really interesting, and the attention to detail that the people building it have is beautiful. I’ve always been a big fan of Claymation movies, and this movie captures everything that I love about the art form. I think it gives the director and designers the opportunity to do so much and have such a great attention to detail, but at the same time I think it also gives them the great challenge of creating those details and animating all of them at the same time. I’m really excited to see how the movie turns out, and I look forward to watching it. Also, in that clip the sound was also fantastic, and I’m curious about how this mechanical beast is going to sound.
Wow! That’s really cool. I agree with the makers of the film that something is lost in completely rendering a movie in CGI. The making of very specific props for film like that almost seems like a luxury that doesn’t exist in many places anymore. The from what it looked like, the ‘mechadrill’ might have actually functioned as a moving robot had it ben engineered and larger. From a practical perspective however, I can completely understand why one would build a functional machine as a prop in a stop motion movie. If one has made a workable clay model of a character with maybe some wire for support, when you move it between frames, you are responsible not only for moving the piece only a little bit, but for replicating the natural range of movement that the character should be able to perform. If given the option, it seems like it would be much easier to create a mechanical device that causes the object to move in the desired motion consistently.
I absolutely love stop-motion and all the amazing work the animators put in to it, and this machine is completely blowing my mind. It’s sad that so much of the work was covered up by the overall decoration, but the fact that they hid it increases the magic of finding out that it was fully functional because, from the outside, you might not be able to tell. The fact that they actually made it in the first place is great because I feel like every movie is just making everything CG which I think takes away the human hand in the creation. I have so much more respect for movies that use as little CGI as possible because it makes everything look all the more real and the behind the scenes more impressive because of all the tangible hard work that you can see and the designers can just pick up in the middle of an interview. It’s not just a file on a computer.
These designs are utterly gorgeous! This reminds me of the models that were used in the making of The Matrix (A movie I continue to be obsessed with). Each model was put together intricately by hand and they created these giant models. And every detail was present and it was incredible, you could see an entire world in scale and it was amazing to see.
Even though the matrix was made a while ago, in the timeline of movie making and technology, it's really nice to see something similar to that "old style" of movie making that you just don't see as much anymore. And that kind of art is something I really envy.
It's true that CGI has made model building slightly obsolete, but I hope to see more people going "old school" and using these beautiful artistic designs in the future. Because, to me, there's nothing better.
I absolutely love this. It’s so hard to believe that they created a machine that is functional and works mechanically for the movie while also being able to move in stop motion alongside the rest of the movie. I can’t wait to see the movie and appreciate it on screen. In many ways, I love stop motion because it hasn’t given over the age of computers and CGI, and I think this is what makes this machine and movies like Boxtrolls so incredible and authentic. Because it has to move in stop motion, and all the parts have to work together as an actual machine, we can see as an audience how that is reflected in the authenticity of its movement, and in the realistic qualities of its existence. So often in animated pictures, machinery is lacking in these qualities. I’m really looking forward to seeing the film and what they come up with next!
If you can’t beat them join them is probably the best phrase that applies to what the creators of the Boxtrolls did here with their movie. As soon as the birth of computer aided animation occurred thats been the dominant artistic style seen in the media today. Leaving tradition style of drawing and claymation to be labeled as obsolete and outdated. Truly limiting future generation view of a lot of art forms that could have inspired them to become or doing something new. So the fact that the creators of Boxtrolls trying to fight mainstream by continuing to only use claymation as their medium for the movie they went ahead and incorporated computer animation to enhance the claymation of their movie. Not only does this show that there doesn’t need to be a war on animation mediums but that all things combined can make some really cool art and tell stories in ways not thought imaginable before.
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