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Nightmare Before Motion

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The stop-motion industry has continued to flourish thanks to its imaginative creators. Using innovative artistic choices and method, stop-motion directors have been able produce visually stunning movies. The tools these artists have developed to produce movies like The Nightmare Before Christmas directed by Henry Selick and The Boxtrolls directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi are examples of that. Both movies’ usage of their own materials along with there methods to create artistic masterpieces have inspired young artists and continue to inspire them to this day. The making of The Nightmare Before Christmas, like most stop motion was extremely time consuming. While most animation takes around 6-8 months to create, the creation of …show more content…

While The Nightmare Before Christmas was limited to it’s time and required virtually everything to be hand made, The Boxtrolls used 3D printing to create fluid animation that surpassed practically everything before it. The Boxtrolls used over 1.4 million faces for their main character. They were able to do this because 3D printing allowed much more nuance in each of the characters’ faces than having them be handcrafted. The process allowed for more color, which allowed for a much more colorful and larger world. It was also much faster as you could simply just print out a new model after making it on the computer of course. The faces were also allowed to be much more consistent. When you’re making multiple version of the same face handcrafted, humans are bound to make mistake and will not be able to me as consistent as a machine. That why if you look closely you can see jittering faces and other small things in the movie that can take you out of the experience. The Boxtrolls does not have that problem. Artistically, the world is insanely immersive; the complexity of color, shapes, sizes, sets, scencery, etc. allowed for a living world that easily surpasses The Nightmare Before Christmas. The Boxtrolls and The Nightmare Before Christmas both were amazing in their own rights. The Nightmare Before Christmas’ innovative use of the limited resources they had access to as well as the creative and thought provoking story is one of the reasons this movie is a classic. The Boxtrolls uses of modern technology to create a living and beautiful world is awe inspiring to young artist everywhere. And both of these two movies are the result of tediously moving small toys ever so slightly for many years to create a beautiful work of art that is to unique in style to be capture in any other

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