Whether you're stealing cider from Franklin Bean's basement or kidnapping Santa Clause in Halloween Town, stop-motion animation has a way of making the fantastic feel a lot more real. Stop-motion animation is a unique style of animated filmmaking. Instead of being able to craft virtually any object and character you need with a computer program, you need to source materials from the real world. This is one of the aspects that makes stop-motion so strangely human, organic, and real, both visually and emotionally. In this video essay from Fandor, Jacob T. Swinney goes over how stop-motion films like Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas and Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs are made, and attempts to explain the peculiar appeal of this type of animation style. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 29 March, 2018