| Marrying the
old and the new: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride features stop-motion
animation shot with digital still cameras |
LONDON
-- Boy meets girl, boy practices wedding vows by putting ring
on finger of dead girl, boy marries corpse. That's the macabre
spin to a classic romance story in Warner Bros.' animated
tale, Corpse Bride. Directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson,
this gravely enchanting tale comes to the big screen as the
first digital stop-motion feature film.
"What I love about stop-motion animation is that it's
so tactile," says Burton. "There's something wonderful
about being able to physically touch and move the characters,
and to see their world actually exist. It's similar to making
a live action film--if you're doing it all on bluescreen,
it doesn't give you the feeling of actually being there, which
the stop-motion process does."
"The Nightmare Before Christmas [directed
by Burton] spawned a new generation of stop-motion fans,"
says Johnson, who was an assistant animator on that film,
"it has a certain texture, a presence, that just can't
be achieved with computers."
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