

#Stop motion animation film coraline movie
In a 2013 interview, Gaiman recounted the notes they got back from studios about why they wanted no part of Coraline: "It's got a female protagonist, so clearly boys will not go see a movie like this. Never mind the decision to use stop-motion - it was also the fact that Coraline told a scary story about a smart tween named Coraline (voiced by Dakota Fanning) who's unhappy about the new town where she and her parents (Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman) have just moved, discovering a surreal universe through a doorway in the spooky house they now call home. Not that it was easy to convince Hollywood at the time that this would work. Coraline didn't exactly come out of nowhere - in fact, it wasn't even that year's only major stop-motion offering - but it established Laika as a player in the animation world, proving that its filmmakers' lovingly handmade aesthetic could flourish in a world dominated by Woody, Buzz, and Shrek. 6, 2009, a company called Laika revealed its first full-length stop-motion animated film, a dark children's adventure based on a Neil Gaiman book. Sometimes, the old-fashioned techniques can be just as powerful. But those often indelible films don't represent all that animation can do. DreamWorks and others have followed in the Disney company's footsteps, creating visual wonders through this incredible technology. In the past 25 years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, making computers the principal tool for the artform. Welcome to "This Week in Genre History," where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world's greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released.
