Chris Butler, Oscar-nominated for the 2012 animated “ParaNorman,” is back in the race again with Laika’s “Missing Link,” a beautiful and sweet tale of friendship told in stop-motion. Butler says: “…
,” a beautiful and sweet tale of friendship told in stop-motion. Butler says: “When people learn what I do, their reaction is ‘Fun!’ Itfun, but it’s also extremely hard.” He adds with a laugh, “In this job, you can have intense arguments over the design of a fork.”
“Lionel is 13 inches, which is the optimum size for a puppet,” says Butler. “If it’s bigger than that, it becomes a wrestling match for the animator. You don’t want the puppet too big, or it becomes unmanageable; but it’s hard to get smaller, since you have mechanics that go inside the head, to get the eyelids to blink, the face to move. If we went smaller than 13 inches, we couldn’t have achieved all the mechanics we need for a complex performance.
“People who work on costume in stop motion are not just designing things that look good, they’re engineering geniuses. Deborah is always finding fabrics that have the correct scale on camera. If you want a suit to look like wool, you have to find a fabric for that in miniature — and real wool probably won’t work.”
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