Why does Coraline use puppets and stop-motion animation?
I love stop-motion, and have since I was a child. I watched the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials and Gumby as a child; they were always favorites. Its appeal, in my mind, is that there is a real tangible quality to seeing real puppets on real sets lit with real lights seemingly coming to life. I have been working with stop-motion, computer animation, and traditional 2D cel animation for about 10 years, and stop-motion has always been my favorite form. Coraline was not always a stop-motion film. We did some tests early on with CG and even considered making the ‘real’ world CG and the ‘other’ world Coraline goes to stop-motion. Ultimately, the CG always left us feeling cold. The life and texture of puppets have a charm that is undeniable. –Some theaters are showing Coraline in 3D. For a long time, 3D movies have been seen as a gimmick. Is Coraline going to change that? I was skeptical at first when it was announced we were doing 3D. I remembered seeing some bad 3D films in the 80s when it
