After reading an article from Imagine Magazine Sep/Oct issue 2009, I have picked out some common themes and issues within present stop frame animation techniques. The supervising modeller and director of photography are interviewed, both sharing experience at Aardman studios and Laika. The other members of their team consisted of silversmith sculpters, mold makers, armature makers, latex and silicone people, painters and illustrators all working at the "Puppet Hospital" in London. What interests me here is how these people can all relate to modelmaking, yet are divided up to work on a very specific section of the overall process. Team work and passion for the project are invaluable traits here as the team are discribed as:
"a big family of gypsies all getting together in a room and having a good time, communicating and cross-referencing with each other."
The director of Fantastic Mr Fox is Wes Anderson, who had previously only worked in live action film making. The main issue to production team seemed to have with him was that he was physically remouved from much of the process, communicating to his team via Email. His desire for attention to detail required much re-scaling of each character, depending on the camera shot. Most of the Modelmakers time was dedicated to producing around six different scale replicas of each puppet , meaning 500-600 models were completed in a relativly short amount of time.
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