Hello Everyone,
I just wanted to share some cool things from the Coraline Panel that I went to. The panel was at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra last Saturday February 7. My friends and I attended the panel and saw several character designs, storyboards, backgrounds and even prop designs. I feel that I got a lot out of it, it was very informative on how things work when it comes to stop motion. Obviously time is a huge factor but what I didn't realize was that a lot of the stop motion animators live in this kind of zone for a few weeks just to animate a scene. As explained by one of the artists (I think it was Shane Prigmore that said it) these guys must be masochist, because of everything that they have to do, they stay in they're cubicle (box room) or something for at least a week, posing and animating the models, fixing the models and just getting everything right. It takes a great deal of passion to be able to do that, I think that's just inspiring to me. Anyways here's a link to the photos that gallery nucleus took.
http://gallerynucleus.com/photos/72157613499563612oh and I took one of the pics from there and I'm uploading it here, yes I know I'm a nerd but hey take a look at the pic above...
Happy Animating!!!
--Will--