New ParaNorman Trailer Continues to Tease Most Ambitious Stop-Motion Film Yet
Mashable has obtained a new web trailer for the upcoming 3D animated film ParaNorman, teasing new scenes for perhaps the most ambitious stop-motion movie ever created.
The film — which comes from the creators behind the Academy Award-nominated Coraline and is made with puppets — follows a young boy named Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee), who is able to speak to the dead. When his small New England town comes under siege by zombies, Norman takes on ghosts and witches to save his town from a centuries-old curse.
ParaNorman, also starring Casey Affleck, Anna Kendrick and John Goodman, hits theaters on Friday, August 17.
Similar to Coraline, ParaNorman is a stop-motion film — an art form that is unlike other animation in that everything that moves on the screen had to be physically be moved by someone, from the characters to details in scenes such as newspapers and vending machines.
“You start with a puppet with a little metal skeleton inside and if you pose it, it will hold its position,” said Travis Knight, producer and lead animator of ParaNorman, in a FocusFeatures video. “You move it slightly, take a picture and then move it a little bit more and take another picture. When you knit enough of those individual pictures together and play them, it looks like the characters are brought to life.” Visit Mashable.com for the full story
The film — which comes from the creators behind the Academy Award-nominated Coraline and is made with puppets — follows a young boy named Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee), who is able to speak to the dead. When his small New England town comes under siege by zombies, Norman takes on ghosts and witches to save his town from a centuries-old curse.
ParaNorman, also starring Casey Affleck, Anna Kendrick and John Goodman, hits theaters on Friday, August 17.
Similar to Coraline, ParaNorman is a stop-motion film — an art form that is unlike other animation in that everything that moves on the screen had to be physically be moved by someone, from the characters to details in scenes such as newspapers and vending machines.
“You start with a puppet with a little metal skeleton inside and if you pose it, it will hold its position,” said Travis Knight, producer and lead animator of ParaNorman, in a FocusFeatures video. “You move it slightly, take a picture and then move it a little bit more and take another picture. When you knit enough of those individual pictures together and play them, it looks like the characters are brought to life.” Visit Mashable.com for the full story
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movie: ParaNorman 2012
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