http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog Tracking the latest developments in interactive rendering techniques Sun, 12 May 2013 00:21:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/computer-modeled-stop-motion-in-coraline/ http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/computer-modeled-stop-motion-in-coraline/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 04:42:30 +0000 Naty http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/?p=96 This is a bit old, but still cool: the film Coraline (based on a great book by one of my favorite authors) was stop-motion, not CG.  However, the facial animation was extremely smooth, due to a unique process.  The expressions were modeled by computer, exactly as they would have been for a CG animated feature.  Then for each frame, the faces were “printed” out on a “3D printer” (rapid prototyping machine).  These tweened “frame faces” were swapped in for each stop-motion frame.  CGSociety has an article describing the production pipeline for this film, an intriguing combination of CG and stop-motion animation.

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