{"id":96,"date":"2009-05-05T22:42:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T04:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2009-05-05T22:42:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T04:42:30","slug":"computer-modeled-stop-motion-in-coraline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/computer-modeled-stop-motion-in-coraline\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer-modeled stop motion in &#8220;Coraline&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a bit old, but still cool: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0327597\/\">the film <em>Coraline<\/em><\/a> (based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Coraline-Neil-Gaiman\/dp\/0380977788\">a great book<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/\">one of my favorite authors<\/a>) was stop-motion, not CG.\u00a0 However, the facial animation was extremely smooth, due to a unique process.\u00a0 The expressions were modeled by computer, exactly as they would have been for a CG animated feature.\u00a0 Then for each frame, the faces were &#8220;printed&#8221; out on a &#8220;3D printer&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.objet.com\/\">rapid prototyping machine<\/a>).\u00a0 These tweened &#8220;frame faces&#8221; were swapped in for each stop-motion frame.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgsociety.org\/\">CGSociety<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/features.cgsociety.org\/story_custom.php?story_id=4924\">an article describing the production pipeline for this film<\/a>, an intriguing combination of CG and stop-motion animation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 However, the facial animation was extremely smooth, due to a unique process.\u00a0 The expressions were modeled by computer, exactly as they would have been for a CG animated feature.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,170,171],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-coraline","tag-rapid-prototyping","tag-stop-motion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}