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2. Animating Coraline - Timelapse

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1. Flicker (dir: animator from Coraline using a canon…

by Chris Tootell

2 years ago

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It's a slow start but give it time. It's all stop motion with time lapse vfx. Pretty much all done in camera with 30 second exposures.

Music by Paper Beat Scissors

Directed by Chris Tootell, Animator for Coraline, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Aardman.

Puppet by Jeremy Spake

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Makinov 2 years ago

Beautiful stuff!
Brusc Willis 2 years ago

I smell a tones of hours of work, shooting and compositing in AfterEffects.. :) Very nice movie. I would say also very creative.
vizage 2 years ago

So good... May I know, how did you do the first part with lighting at parts of the room? Thanks
Chris Tootell 2 years ago

It's several locked off exposures of the same shot, each with the lighting altered to highlight one area and put the rest into shadow, then the composite done in apple motion with a layered "dolly" done with a sort of parallax scrolling technique .
Gavin Owens 2 years ago

thats excellent. How long did it take to put together?
Hat is off....
Chris Tootell 2 years ago

I shot it whilst I was animating on Coraline so I was animating this through the nights for about a month or 2, then post took a couple of weeks.
mpared 2 years ago

lovely piece of work posted at the curious brain well done!
Manuel Drexl 2 years ago

wow..amazing and fascinating
Brandt Bethune 2 years ago

Simply incredible, you can tell that would have taken ages to do bit by bit. Did you create the little watch/crab creature? That was great. Also, was the "plank of wood" for the camera to rest on?
Chris Tootell 2 years ago

The puppet was created by a model maker who also worked on Coraline as an armaturist, Jeremy Spake. You are right about the plank of wood. I marked out my camera move and shot 1 30 exposure per frame.
Brandt Bethune 2 years ago

awesome, Coraline was an amazing film. It's incredible to see how far things have come with stop-motion. It also didn't hurt I saw it in 3D. I love some of the simple tricks used to full advantage, specifically that expanding portal from the real world to the "real" world, such a simple but effective illusion. Give my reguards to Jeremy Spake on his fun little creation.
Phil Rice 2 years ago

Really breathtaking. I hope your time will allow you to do more shorts like this in the future, in between the big projects.
Stuart Paciej 2 years ago

Thats absolutely beautiful. I love the little details with the light streaks, (and the involuntary one from the plane). Your camera moves are spot on too.

It looks like you've gone at 25fps?? I make that about 12.5 minutes per second of footage at least! Well done, inspiring work.
Grant Gladish 2 years ago

Very, very nice.
josh lyon 2 years ago

love the slow build... :)

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Tyler Johnston 2 years ago

Really nicely done. Mesmerizing and haunting without being sappy and contrived...a fine line to walk.
Mark Jacinto 2 years ago

Incredible video. For your dolly shots, was your camera moved by hand by little increments or was it tied to a motor somehow? Can you shed any light on how you did your light streaks?
Chris Tootell 2 years ago

for this film it was animated by hand. the light streaks: the process for each frame was; open the shutter, run away from the camera with a flashlight on a stick pointing it roughly toward the lens (i was wearing dark clothing so as not to expose), then run back this time pointing the flashlight onto a surface so the light streak would be effecting it's surroundings, each exposure was around 30 seconds.
Leonard R Wilkes III 2 years ago

Absolutely amazing! I loved this video. I really like the amber glow of the city. It seems so peaceful.

Love the music.

I also have great respect for all that went into filming this. I experimented once with still shots like this with my Rebel and a flashlight, and yes, black clothing, but I never imagined it being used in motion. Great job!

Link to my experimental light streak photo (on Flickr ironically): flickr.com/photos/lenwilkes/3774459814/
Mariusz Kornatka 2 years ago

Nice!
newso 2 years ago

Arghh Chris! you are an Effing genius! Loving it!
Hache 2 years ago

Beautiful .. and also loved the song ... THANKS
Richard Kramer 2 years ago

Nice
FLIMEMA 2 years ago

Absolutely gorgeous!
Cathy Sutton 2 years ago

Wow! I heard the name of the bird Flicker or the horse Flicka and I came running! Could you please enlighten us how you did the lightening strikes? Thanks!
fdb 2 years ago

Makes me miss Portland.
Richard M Hailstone 2 years ago

Really enjoyable - looks fantastic :-)

*edit* watched this a few more times and fallen in love with it - it's quintessentially VIMEO this video :-)
jriggity 8 months ago

Very cool man!