A lot of my inspiration for my models first came from stop motion animation sets, such as Tim Burton's sets.
One of which is Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. It is a stop motion animated feature film that was a huge step forward in digital film making. Jonathon Lucas worked on most of the shooting and editing and was actually his first feature film as a professional editor.
"A lot of folks think our footage is CGI" "It's so smooth it looks computer-generated. The Canon still cameras are amazing; the quality is pretty unbelievable. If I have to, I can blow it up by 30 to 40 percent without showing degradation."
Most feature films take around 12-14 weeks to shoot, but Corpse Bride took a total of 52 weeks as they only got 2 minutes of film per week, even though they were shooting 10 hours a day, six days a week.
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is another stop motion animation film, comprising of 109,440 frames. The filmmakers constructed 227 puppets to represent the characters in the movie, with Jack Skellington having around 400 heads, allowing the expression of every possible emotion.
Sally's mouth movements were animated through the replacement method. During animation process, only Sally's face mask was removed in order to preserve the order of her long red hair. Sally had a total of 10 faces, each made with a series of 11 expressions and synchronised mouth movements.
Coraline is another film that I looked at because of the beautiful and surreal landscapes and buildings. But, unlike previous stop motion films, they used a 3D printer for the faces instead of having to hand sculpt each one. Coraline used 6,333 printed faces, which could be combined to make 207,000 possible facial expressions.
The film took an extremely long time to make as they were only able to get 20-100 seconds of animation each week and took a total of 28 animators at a time to do so.
The set was also comprised of nearly 150 sets that were divided into 50 lots in the 140,000 square-foot warehouse it was being limed in. This wasn't a lot of space as some of the sets were up to 42 feet long.
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