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A Nightmare Before Christmas: Research

Character Development

1. Title of the movie

Nightmare Before Christmas

2. Production company

Skellington Productions

3. How was the stop motion completed?  (ex. 3D printing, clay, wire, mixed media, other)

Clay

4. Who were the main people working on the stop motion of the movie?  Give a short bio to at least 1 of those people.  (other movies, education, location, what they are known for..)

Henry Selick

Tim Burton: Timothy Walter "Tim" Burton was born August 25, 1958. He is an American film director, producer, artist, writer and animator. He is known for his very stylized works with their  dark, gothic and quirky fantasy characteristics.

Denise Di Novi

Caroline Thompson

Michael McDowell

5. What is special about the movie?  (largest puppet, first to use 3D printing or style)

It’s the first stop-motion animated feature to be entirely converted to 3D.

6. Insert (not a link) a video of a behind the scenes clip.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLw-Fo8uhis

7. What draws you to this movie?  What do you find interesting about the movie? (Style, theme, subject)

The style, story, and musical score and lyrics are all extremely attractive to me. I enjoy creepier story lines and so this movie is a hit and run for me.

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The Inedible project

1. Who lives in the house you created?  Is there a particular reason you picked the parts you did?
2. In the Leaning tower of Pizza, mostly tourists are the ones who visit to get a slice of the best pizza in all of Italy. The Doughnut hole in the ground Houses are home to sugar trolls who's only source of nutrition is from the surrounding architecture which they are constantly having to rebuild, and the Apple Tree House is a playground in the trees specifically for kids who want to play pretend with their friends.
3. What alterations did you have to make to make it look realistic?
4. I had to warp several of the images to fit correctly to the food. I also had to erase part of the door on the bacon maple doughnuts so that the door looks like it's a part of the doughnut. I had to also warp the pizza to fit into the shape of the Pisa.
5. If you could change anything about the piece, what would you do?
6. Well, I would finish them for one. I would add shadows and work to make each piece look realistic.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Oh, there's Dumbo!

1.What problems did you overcome during this project and how?
I had a difficult time getting the wings cut out nicely and then transferred over to Dumbo. Something happened in the process where they became really large and then once I shrank them down the edges were blurry. I then proceeded to work the edges so that there was not a white fizzy edge to the best of my abilities.2. If you could change anything about the piece what would you do?

I would change the wings and make sure that the edges were crisp and clean.3. Explain your animal?  What is their name/species? How did you come up with this idea?

This is Dumbo. He has always been mistreated at the carnival for being different by the other elephants, but one fateful a trusting mouse took him under his, ahem, wing and helped him realize his ears are what make him special. Then, when some crows were teasing him and he couldn't stand it anymore Dumbo used his lucky feather to see if he could fly, and he soared.

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Mini Lesson 1: Frog Tongue

If only I could be in four places at once...?

1. What problems did you overcome during this project and how?
I had a difficult time initially understanding how to move each individual 'me'm into the background picture. Once I better understood how masks worked, I had a relatively simple time of moving each image over.
2. If you could change anything about the piece what would you do?

I'm actually really pleased with this image. I'm sure I have only done a sub par job, but I can't think of what I would wish to alter at this point in time. I like the placement of each of my clones and the overall composition of the piece with the varying placement of the clones.