Animation & Visual Effects Inspiration Blog: Coraline

I watched Coraline a few months ago and I was blown away with the story and the animation. Eventhough this is a kids film I still found it very creepy, similar to much of Tim Burton's work which I love. I especailly was blown away by the intense design process and shooting process that is needed to create a film of this type. I love this type of animation due to the realism created through the use of puppets rather than heavy CGI, I fell in love with the puppets as they were all so unique and wonderfully creepy.
It reminds me alot of films like Tim Burton's Corpse Bride and The Nightmare Before Christmas, both these films use similar techniques to aid the animation by digitally enhancing the puppets and enviroments they all also have very unique character designs with kooky features which are played with and pin pointed in the designs. An example of this would be fig1 this character has two or three features that are enhanced to create an interesting and unusual design, she is designed as a plump character which you can see especially in her facial designs, she also wears very heavy makeup and unusual headpieces. All the characters in Coraline are designed in this way and overall create a very diverse and creative film.