Travis Knight is the CEO and president of his animation studio, Laika. His studio is credited with making Coraline and ParaNorman which show off their skill with merging stop motion and computer generated effects to make a film. The studio's most recent film using these two techniques is The Boxtrolls. Knight states that while working on each film, he and his cast learn new techniques and technologies to help them along the way, and what they learned from one film, they then applied to the next. Trying to reshoot something is incredibly difficult to do, so it's important to get the right animators for the job ahead of time. When prompted to choose between making something on a computer or as a full scale puppet, Knight preferred to have the puppet because he believes that the "stuff we can capture in-camera helps create a unified perspective of the world we're building".
Well, I feel bad for not having watched ParaNorman or Coraline now. It's interesting to hear from a stop motion animator for once, and hearing about the blend of stop motion with computers. I was one of the people who felt that these films were all pretty similar in the fact that they were scary, kid movies and looked similar. However this new film seems cute, funny, and unique, so I'd like to see it. One really must admire stop motion just because it is so time consuming and you need to make every shot count. Reshooting is almost not even an option.
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