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Friday
20Nov2009

Video - Inside the 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' Puppet Shop

DateFriday, November 20, 2009 at 9:52AM
I can't even begin to fathom how exacting the work is to make a film like The Fantastic Mr. Fox. A feature-length production that is literally shot frame-by-frame instead of scene-by-scene is grueling enough to consider, but then there's the mechanical setup required for every frame, which as you probably know, only constitutes 1/24th of a second. Now extend that amount of work over 87 minutes...that's over 125,000 frames, and each one (not counting credits, obviously) has to be completely engineered from the ground up.

There's a new featurette for Mr. Fox that goes inside the puppet shop with Wes Anderson, so you can see a little bit about the sort of determination and dedication required to make a film like this, to say nothing about making a film like this good or entertaining.

I do wish it were a bit longer - I know, I know: That would be even more work - because once you start watching something like this, it's so fascinating that you just want to learn more about it.


Trailer courtesy of Trailer Addict

Mr. Fox is already in theaters, but it's expanding next Wednesday to over 2,000 locations so you'll have a better chance to catch the stop-motion in motion.

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , , , , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment2 Comments |

Reader Comments (2)

roald dahl is one of my favorite childhood authors and i can't wait to catch wes anderson's latest flick this weekend (w/ such a stellar cast, too!)

BTW i saw that gifts.com featured a roald dahl gift set on their blog today. it's really cute and comes with 4 of the classic books. i'm definitely going to pick this up for my niece for christmas. if anyone's interested, here's the link http://blog.gifts.com/giftrap/categories/media-gifts/like-a-fox

Friday, November 20, 2009 | Unregistered Commentersarah

Man I love Bill Murray and Wes Anderson... stoked!

Friday, November 20, 2009 | Unregistered Commenteranybody

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