Guillermo del Toro arrives at the Oscars with ‘pinocchio‘, to which he has given life thanks to stop motion. The film, nominated for best feature film animationuses this technique to bring the character to life and give it a greater sense of realism.
The film is made up of 170,000 photographsas pointed out David Knight, a stop-motion animator, and explains the technique is to “take pictures and move the object” over and over again, so that by putting them all together, the illusion is created. In addition, Caballer details that to make one minute of animation, 1,400 photographs are taken.
“They are figures that, being in motion, take on a very enigmatic life,” he declares. Carlos Navarro, animation teacher at the ESDIP Art School. It is an almost artisan work and in the result all the effort behind it is not appreciated, since “an animator a day only does between two and six seconds. Projects for series or feature films can go on for four or five years,” he indicates. Javier Tostadodirector of Inspire Animation.
It was practically a mistake that led to the discovery of this technique at the beginning of the 20th century and it has been used in great titles in the history of cinema such as ‘Nightmare Before Christmas‘. That technique, now more advanced, is still very much in force in animation studios where every little detail counts, everything to give life where there is none and immerse viewers in the magic of cinema.
Source: Lasexta
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