Nightmare Before Christmas a movie made by Tim Burton as well as a movie that a great number of people love to watch all year around. Currently I was watching on how they made this movie and I couldn't believe on how long it takes just to make a second of the film. By doing still animation it took 100 shots to make only a second for the movie. All together it took 3 years to complete the whole thing. They also used over 200 hundred puppets for every character and 40 facial expressions to uses, by slipping the head onto the body. Having the appropriate lighting was also a big deal. By having the appropriate lighting you would be able to see the darkness of Halloween town to give it that eery look and then again the brightness and joyful sense of Christmas town.
I could not believe on how long and tedious this movie was to make. I was criticizing on how easier it would of been in 3-D animation. Because all they would have to do is create the character and the stage pretty much just once or twice. By creating it the 3-D aspect they would of been able to mimic and show facial expressions just by using bend tools and to give it more depth just play around with some lighting.
Todd,
ReplyDeleteYou have to remember when this movie was made. This was made when the digital movie age was still an infant. Techniques like this were state of the art then and required real world creativity and application. Yes, 3D modeling maybe be easier and in some cases, faster, but remember that digital effects can be easily picked out as a simple computer graphic, stop motion techniques are still superior in that aspect of spfx.