Coraline

This would probably have to be the most recent Stop-Motion Animation I watched. However I turned over after about 20 minutes as the film was so dark and bizzare; but also, simply because I fancied watching something different. This film came out in 2009 so is quite a recent Stop-motion animation. It was created in America by the same people that created 'The Nightmare before Christmas' and is on many 'top 10 best stop-motion film ever' lists. The method of Stop-motion animation they used was puppets.

 This is a short video of the director Henry Selick

explaining the different methods they used to create

their characters and the movement within the film.

It's interesting the different methods they use to create their characters movement. It also amazes me how they can make a puppet look so alive and real. If you watch the video you can see its no easy task. There were 28 identical puppets of the main character Coraline created (which took 10 people four months to build) with over 6,300 different replacement face pieces enabling them to use 207,000 different face combinations. Lets not forget this is just one of over 12 different other characters and the whole set and backgrounds that would also have to be created and moved along with the characters. However, this is just one example of stop-motion and a very complex and developed one.

References:

Youtube. (2014). Coraline (2009) Bringing the characters to life. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlMmBCei6h0. Last accessed 15/10/2014.